“When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“Only when I turned thirty did I finally feel for the first time that I was free, that I could live as I liked, as an individual. It's as if at thirty, I'd been born for the first time. Until then, I was never more than someone's tool.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“Never give birth to children thoughtlessly!'' I want to shout it out loud.That is why, stroke by faltering stroke, I've written this all down.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“We are just stardust after all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“پرسیدم از اوستاد دانا
از حالت عاشق توانا
کاو را به مراد خویش ره بود
مهلت دادن چه کارگه بود؟
کامی که بر آمدش در آن حال
ناکام چرا گذاشت سی سال؟
گفتا که به یک مراد، حالی
کشتی تنش از نشاط خالی
زان کام نجست از آن پریزاد
تا خانه ی عشق ماند آباد
از کام گرفتنی چنان سست
سی سال نشاط خویشتن جست”
― Nizami Ganjavi, quote from Layla and Majnun
“That is why I don't want a cell phone. I don't want a droopy fin.”
― Penny Reid, quote from Neanderthal Seeks Human
“Our minds are all that defend us from the horror of the void. The majority of the time we simply think about something-anything-else, and that itself is an act of defiance against the vast nothing of the universe.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“if you don't first accept the gift as it is—if you change what you hear, or change what you learn—doesn't that make it weak somehow?" "Why should it?" Mr. Williams asked softly. "As I believe I've said to you before, the gift is not what you hear, or learn… the gift is being able to hear and learn. These things are yours from the moment they come and you can shape the tune, or the clay, or the painting, or whatever it is, because it belongs to you. It's what I've always done with my music.”
― Robert Holdstock, quote from Lavondyss
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