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Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and... Alan Watts
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement. Adrienne Rich
John D. MacDonald quote: "We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody..."
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. John D. MacDonald
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity. C. S. Lewis
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. Ellis Peters
She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear. Eric Packer about Vija Kinski Don DeLillo
Russell Simmons quote: "The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to..."
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best Russell Simmons
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday! John Calvin
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Henry Miller
Stephen R. Donaldson quote: "It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way,..."
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. Stephen R. Donaldson
And I Decided (From Arabic)And I decided to go. Round the world on freedom's bicycle. By ways illegal. As the travels of wind. When asked for my address. I give the address of all sidewalks. I chose as permanent residence. When asked for my papers, I show them your eyes. And am allowed to pass. For they know that travel in the cities of your eyes, my dear, Is the right of all world citizens. .. .. . .. .. .. Nizar Qabbani
Margaret Atwood quote: "Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up,..."
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. Margaret Atwood
The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing. Swami Vivekananda
Brian Tracy quote: "Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for..."
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in... Henry David Thoreau

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