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“If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.”
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“Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them. It is not too much to say that ritual is more to society than words are to thought. For it is very possible to know something and then find words for it. But it is impossible to have social relations without symbolic acts.”
Source : "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".
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“Don't compromise your heart for something crass.”
Source : Song: This Too Will Pass
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“It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.”
Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.10, New World Library
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“In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.”
Source : Ellen J. Langer (2007). “On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity”, p.131, Ballantine Books
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“So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
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“I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.”
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“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
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“The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.”
Source : "Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc" by Malcolm Archibald, Dublin: Black Cat Press, (p. 24), 2007.
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“In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.”
