Tumblr Cursors Quotes & Sayings

And so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teaching what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. That is why I am going on my way - not to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone - or die — Hermann Hesse

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love. — Thomas Paine

As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping. — Darren Shan

Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour. — William Montagu-Pollock

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. — Colin Powell

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. — Vita Sackville-West

I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person. — Dane Cook

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician. — Tunku Abdul Rahman

Don't let your tears be seen; it may hurt someone else's happiness. — M.F. Moonzajer