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“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other s point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.”

— Richard Kearney, On Stories, Share via Whatsapp

“إن الأمور لا تتحسن مع الوقت ، بل نحن الذي نعتاد سُوأَها”

— عز الدين شكرى فشير, Share via Whatsapp

“The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”

— Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Share via Whatsapp

“বড় বোকামিগুলি বুদ্ধিমান মানুষরাই করে।”

— Humayun Ahmed, আঙুল কাটা জগলু, Share via Whatsapp

“Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.”

— Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black, Share via Whatsapp

“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”

— Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Share via Whatsapp

“We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.”

— Cornel West, Share via Whatsapp

“Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.”

— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy, Share via Whatsapp

“Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!”

— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within, Share via Whatsapp

“It is this idea decency should be attached to wealth -and indecency to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual s morals ?”

— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety, Share via Whatsapp

“We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us.”

— Cornel West, Share via Whatsapp

“Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.”

— Vikram Roy, Share via Whatsapp

“Hey, if it s a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it s your last.”

— Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful, Share via Whatsapp

“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.”

— Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Share via Whatsapp

“Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?”

— Shankara, Share via Whatsapp

“Find your truth, live your truth.”

— J. T. OWENS, Share via Whatsapp

“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human expression and the human experience are universal. It is the greatness of this experience that connects us together by infinite invisible threads strewn across the globe. This is my responsibility, passion and desire as an artist—my soul purpose.”

— Brian Bowers, Shadows Chasing Light, Share via Whatsapp