A Quotes
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“A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.”
“A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.”
“A seed of knowledge exist in any situation.”
“A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.”
“A seed planted from a good and healed soul will never be uprooted by the winds of this earth.”
“A seed refuses to die when you bury it, that is why it becomes a tree.”
“A seed sprouts in silence.”
“A seed that is afraid of being buried is ignorant of its gifts.”
“A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel --root and stem--in a great U-turn until it rights itself. But a human child can know it's pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.”
Source: The Overstory
“A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted.”
Source: The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
“A seed, through patience, increases in value and becomes a tree.”
“A seed today is a forest tomorrow.”
“A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.”
“A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“A seeker must have a receptive mind to understand and accept the right wisdom by rejecting unwanted intelligence duly created by mankind.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“A seeker must have courage and discipline both. it's hard to find both these traits in one person. Those who have courage go reckless. Those who have discipline become bookish and reluctant to explore new things.”
“A seeker of radical strenght
Keeps everything on track,
Feeble force yields at length,
Not sure where to go back.
When one can't find courage,
And all the efforts seem vain,
It's advised to fight like a sage:
Be powerful like a bullet train!
Too much work and no play
Can make a brain go astray!
Determined to live and stay
Can lead life into a long way.”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.”
“A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.”
“A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.”
“A Seelie. A fucking prince,” Lor said. “He’s got a couple hundred more Seelie from a dozen different castes waiting outside. Threatening war. Demanding you shut the place down, stop feeding the Unseelie.”
I gasped, “V’lane?”
“You told him to come!” Ryodan accused.
“She knows him?” Lor exploded.
“It’s her other boyfriend,” Ryodan said.
“Besides Darroc?” one of the other men demanded.
Lor glared at Barrons. “When are you going to wise up and shut that bitch down for good?”
Source: Shadowfever
“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”
“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”
“A seemingly sudden reaction is just the last act in an invisible emotional chain.”
“A seer is a sacred prophet”
“A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures 4 - Udfriet
“A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.”
“A sei anni i miei genitori mi raccontarono che dentro il mio cranio c’era una gemma piccola e scura, che imparava a essere me.
Microscopici ragni avevano tessuto una ragnatela dorata nel mio cervello, perché l’istruttore contenuto nella gemma potesse udire il sussurro dei miei pensieri. La gemma origliava i miei sensi e interpretava i messaggi chimici trasportati dalla circolazione sanguigna: la gemma vedeva, udiva, odorava, gustava e toccava il mondo esattamente come me, mentre l’istruttore monitorava i suoi pensieri e li confrontava con i miei. Ogni qualvolta questi pensieri erano sbagliati, l’istruttore, più veloce del pensiero, dava una risistemata alla gemma, facendo una piccola modifica qua e là, apportando i cambiamenti necessari per correggere i suoi pensieri.
Perché? Perché quando non avessi più potuto essere me, la gemma avrebbe potuto esserlo al posto mio.
Io pensai: “Se ciò che sento mi fa sentire strano e mi dà le vertigini, cosa deve provare la gemma?”. Esattamente la stessa cosa, riflettei; non sa di essere la gemma e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma, rispondendosi poi:
“Esattamente la stessa cosa, non sa di essere la gemma, e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma”.
E anch’essa si chiede...
(Ne ero certo, visto che io me lo domandavo.)
... anch’essa si interroga se è l’Io reale o se semplicemente è la gemma che sta imparando a essere me.
Divenuto un dodicenne pieno di superbia e di scherno, mi presi gioco di quelle preoccupazioni infantili. Tutti avevano la gemma, salvo i membri di oscure sette religiose, e sprecare tempo su una banalità simile mi appariva una perdita di tempo. La gemma era la gemma, un fatto universale della vita, una cosa comune come una cacca. Io e i miei amici vi costruivamo battute stupide, come facevamo con le cose del sesso, per provare a noi stessi quanto eravamo saputi in quel campo.
In realtà, però, non eravamo saputi e imperturbabili come pretendevamo di essere. Un giorno, mentre giocavamo nel parco chiacchierando del più e del meno, uno della banda, il suo nome l’ho dimenticato, ma lo ricordo come una persona troppo intelligente per il suo stesso bene, si mise a domandare a ciascuno di noi: — Chi sei tu? La gemma o l’essere umano?
Noi tutti rispondemmo indignati, senza esitare: — L’essere umano!
Quando tutti ebbero risposto, lui rise e affermò: — Bene, io no. Io sono la gemma. Siete degli stronzi perdenti e mangerete merda, perché voi tutti finirete spazzati via nel cesso cosmico, ma io, io vivrò per sempre.
Lo picchiammo fino a fargli colare il sangue dal naso.
Dal racconto Imparare a essere me.”
Source: Axiomatic
“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1)
"Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you've been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?"
"Remember your private detective wants to be able to sleep soundly at night and in their own bed, not one supplied as her Majesty's pleasure."
"It seems to be an open and shut case doesn't it? But it's not you know? How do you know if anything is what it seems?"
"But where is Cheung kin?"
"When I first set eyes on your father, he was spying on a man from between two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica."
"I don't think I need say more." "On the contrary, if you want me to have any idea what you're talking about, I think you do."
"Why don't you report it to the police?" "Because I stole it in the first place didn't I?"
"It's something of a mystery, I admit."
"Vanished into thin air!"
"You sound so sensible Mrs Hetherington. Please help us get to the bottom of this."
Ah, thought Jane – the old story.
"No body was found?"
"Shall I put the kettle on?" "Only if you fill it with whiskey."
"The course of true love didn't run smoothly for me either, you know."
"Life has its tragedies for sure."
"… What do I want? I want money that's what I want. I want money."
She was even more horrified by the words she heard next.
Callum MacCallum knew what it was like to be an outsider.”
“A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.”
“A self-confident person is often a good problem solver and stress manager, self-reflective and able to clearly observe, articulate, and take ownership of his faults and vulnerabilities. Because self-confident people have a wellformed sense of identity and values, they do not feel the need to disrespect other people, because they know who they are and do not feel threatened by other people or their views.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be insane." What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes. These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs. Man wants chaos. In fact, he has to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder - all this dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things and paints them up as great human tragedies. But we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world - no! Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers, and they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic, participatory act of voting. "You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?"
I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes, let my own lack of a voice be heard.”
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.”
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as to miss the opportunity to glimpse significantly into the eyes of the other and share the thought that occurs to all at this summit, which is, of course, that they have made it thus far, to a point where they can see horizons previously unseen, and the old earth reveals itself newly. Everything is further heightened, as we must obscurely have planned, by signs of sundown.”
Source: Netherland
“A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.”
Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.”
“A self is not consciousness and a self is not life. A self is the unique positioning of an individual relative to society. Self is a wholly social creation.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.”
Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings
“A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.”
“A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“A self-made leader grows with merit and lets the meritorious grow.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.”
“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.”
Source: Leaving the Sea
“A self-serve buffet had been set up with every quiche and tarte salée one could imagine, like a beautiful pissaladière made with onions, shiny black olives, and slippery anchovies, or the one with tomato, honey, and goat cheese.”
Source: The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.”