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Collector Of Fairy Tales Inspirational Quotes (165)

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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah
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And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
Andrew Lang
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Idries Shah
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
Idries Shah
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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault
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O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
Andrew Lang
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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.
Giambattista Vico
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Idries Shah
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
Idries Shah
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
Idries Shah
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How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
Jacob Grimm
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I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
Andrew Lang
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Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.
Giambattista Vico
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Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed governments are even a result of that nature.
Giambattista Vico
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
Idries Shah
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All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
Lafcadio Hearn
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries Shah
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
Idries Shah
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The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.
Arthur Ransome
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