EAST(ASIA) WRITERS ::: “I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.” (MO YAN) “The thunder always sounded but who knows where the rains going to fall.” (HONG YING) “You never betrayed any person especially who helps you” (CONFICIUS) What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.” (DAVID MALOUF) ”Its funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until its all you ever think about.” (TIM WINTON) “Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.” (KATE MORTON) “Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. Ill sketch it in words...” (YASUNARI KAWABATA) “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” (HARUKI MURAKAMI) “It wasnt so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.” (NATSUO KIRINO) “Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.” (IVAN TURGENEV) “I am who I am and thats who I am” (NIKOLOI GOGOL) “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” (VLADIMIR NABOKOV) Be realistic: Plan for a miracle” (OSHO) “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI) “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” (ANITA DESAI) “Strain our bodies, necks and eyes, trying to glimpse the kind of journey and surprises in store,but such view is beyond mortal eyes,part and parcel of our earthly tests.” (MERTON LEE) “To be happy, you either change the world, or you change your thinking.” (LOW KAY HWA) “It is now or never, all of us should, join into ties,because, it is the time to change.” (MENKA LATA DANGI) When there is something wrong, as if the way of life where ever happen? (AYSE KULIN) Finishing the parents lap begins each word be said, is a brick placed on the childs personality. (NAMIK KEMAL) He just laughs lovers face, sometimes crap is getting out of love (CAN DUNDAR) “You cant achieve anything without getting in someones way” (ABBA EBAN) “A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.” (AMOS OZ) “The feeling of foreignness has been with me” (BOAZ EVRON) “To say that one waits a lifetime for his or her soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect and you will find your soulmate one day.” (ABD-AR RAHMAN JAMI) “Dont take life too serriously; youll never get out of it alive” (MAHBOD SERAJI) “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way.” (DORIS LESSING) “You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.” (SHIN KYUNG SOOK) “A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.” (LINDA SUE PARK) “People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.” (KIM YOUNG HA) EUROPEAN WRITERS ::: “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” (ALBERT CAMUS) “A new paradigm for understanding today’s world.” (ALAIN TOURAINE) “When the rich wage war, its the poor who die.” (JEAN PAUL SARTRE) “War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” (BERTRAND RUSSELL) “All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” (JOHN LOCKE) “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” (J.K.ROWLING) “An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.” (HEGEL) “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” (ERICH FROMM) “Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.” (MAX WEBER) “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” (NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI) “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.” (UMBERTO ECO) “Youre always experiencing the same event, because you can not change anything at your side!” (STEFANO ELIO D’ANNA) “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” (JEAN PIAGET) “To me, freedom means knowing who you are, knowing what you want, and then actually doing it. What your heart wants to do it.” (PETER BIERI) “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. “ (CARL JUNG) AFRICAN WRITER’S (AUTHOR’S ) QUOTES ::: “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” (NAGUIB MAHFOUZ) “I dont care about age very much.” (CHINUA ACHEBE) “Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.” (J.M.COETZEE) “If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear.” (IBN KHALDUN) AMERICA WRITERS ::: “Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.” (PAUL AUSTER) “Were all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesnt. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” (CHARLES BUKOWSKI) “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” (MARK TWAIN) “Deserve your dream” (OCTOVIA PAZ ) “So why not start from scratch? Nothing is lost when we recognize that all is lost and you have to start again. (IGNACIO SOLARES) “The real bombs are my books, not me.” (CARLOS FUENTES) Nobodys reasonable when theyre in love. Thats the whole point of it.” (RENE BALCER) “A word after a word after a word is power.” (MARGARET ATWOOD ) “The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and anothers willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship.A thriving economy of love.” (CAROLINE ADDERSON) “Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.” (JULIO CORTAZAR) “In the medium or long term well all be dead. Lets deal with the problems at hand.” (AMADO BOUDOU) “To live is to build future memories. (ERNESTO SABATO) “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” (PAULO COELHO) “All of us are great. Small with small parts, but the large share of sadness and sad people.” (JOSE MAURO DE VASCONCELOS) “Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.” (PAULO FREIRE)
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