Shamsur Quotes & Sayings

No judgment, no condescension. Just hope. — James Frey

Our insistence on being different from everything around us is one of the greatest mistakes of mankind. We stubbornly maintain an illusory distinction that sets us apart from rock and ice, water and fire, plant and animal. Both religion and rationality try to explain it through an elaborate vocabulary of separation - soul, atman, spirit, ghosts in the machine or simply the idea of selfhood. We have dreamed up gods so that we can reassure ourselves that somewhere, someday, somehow, after this life is over, something awaits us: a presence that recognizes who we are. But if we approach a mountain instead, accepting that we are nothing more or less than an integral part of its existence, our ego merges with the nature of the mountain. In — Stephen Alter

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time. — Ilona Andrews

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil. — Tracey Emin

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. — D.H. Lawrence

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach? — Laura Bush