Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“I like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.”

“Tell me,’ asked Stas, ‘what is a wicked deed?’ ‘If anyone takes away Kali’s cow,’ he answered after a brief reflection, ‘that then is a wicked deed.’ ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Stas, ‘and what is a good one?’ This time the answer came without any reflection: ‘If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.’ Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.”

“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen…like fruit that is ready, ripe and refined for its pleasurable taste.Even scriptural wisdom documents that “Many are called, few are chosen.”Those chosen ‘few’ may deeply sense that at the core function of elevation is an acension both to and from a higher positioned calling for it…a destiny appointment that will be met without haste…separation has the ability to confirm that elevation has its own appointment…prompted by the foreknowledge of a most SUPER natural selection.”

“Sit, Phantom!” Ivy cooed. “On your bottom!””Oh, for goodness’ sake!” Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. “Sit,” he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor.Ivy scowled in frustration. “I’ve been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?”

“I use this time to think.”

“here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesand so the code-breaker was brokenand we’re sorryyes now the s-word has been spokenthe official conscience woken– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –and the story does suggesta part 2 to the Turing Test:1. can machines behave like humans?2. can we?”

“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”

“It’s when you’re in love, that your smile shines as bright as the noonday sun.”

“Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don’t they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

“Sono stata ammaliata dal fascino sfacciato e intrigante della Belle Epoque.Sfacciato perché, per la prima volta, in quell’epoca le distinzioni di classe perdevano d’importanza davanti all’irrompere dei tempi moderni. In effetti lo stile di vita borghese si evolve raggiungendo e talvolta superando in splendore, classe e mondanità l’aristocrazia medesima.Intrigante in quanto l’umanità accoglie unanime un rinnovamento sociale, culturale, tecnico, artistico senza precedenti.”

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”

“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“Of Equality–as if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself–as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“How surely gravity’s law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing—each stone, blossom, child—is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what we each belong tofor some empty freedom.If we surrenderedto earth’s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin againto learn from the things,because they are in God’s heart;they have never left him.This is what the things can teach us:to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly.”