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“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“مرگ، تمام شد... دیگر مرگی نیست.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“احساس کرد علت آن همه درد کشنده این است که درون حفره ی تاریک و تنگی فرو می رود.بیشتر از آن جهت درد می کشید که نمیتوانست داخل شود! ظاهرا همین مساله بیشتر عذابش می داد.
ناگهان دستی نامرئی به سینه و پهلویش کوبید و نفسش ا بند آورد. به حفره ی بی انتهایی سقوط می کرد و از دور درخشش نوری را می دید. خود را درحالتی شبیه وقتی در قطار نشسته ای و تصور میکنی پیش میروی ، اما ناگهان میفهمی در جهت عکس حرکت میکنی ، و آن گاه سمت و سوی ولقعی را درمی یابی !”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“همگی بلند شدند، خداحافظی کردند و رفتند.
بعد از رفتن آنها بنظر ایوان ایلیچ رسید که حالش بهتر شده است. «دروغ با آنها رفت ، ولی همچنان درد باقی ماند!«”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“گذشته از این در.غ شکنجه باری که به او میگفتند ، و عواقبی که این دروغ درپی داشت ، برای ایوان ایلیچ ناراحت کننده تر از همه آن بود که هیچکس آنطوری که او میخواهد برایش دل نمیسوزاند.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“آنها دوباره به بازی سرگرم میشوند. همه گرفته و ساکتند.
ایوان ایلیچ حس میکند باعث گرفتگی آنها، خود اوست و نمی تواند این حالت را از خود دور کند. آنها شام میخورند و میروند و ایوان ایلیچ با این احساس که زندگی برایش تلخ شده است و دارد زندگی دیگران را هم به کامشان زهر میکند، تنها می ماند.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatever your will is God, that's my will too" but God says He is a father, and there is no good father who wants his children to have no will and to think that they can't stand on their own two feet. So maybe what you should be saying is "I can do it" and "I have a strong will, I know what I want." When you think God's left you and wants you to be sitting like a duck, maybe He's actually believing in you, teaching you how to fly.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Everything you do or say interests me."
"Really," she said skeptically. "What about Lord Westcliff's claim that I'm shallow and self-absorbed?"
As she faced him, Simon braced one hand on the wall near her head and leaned over her protectively. His voice was very soft. "He doesn't know you."
"And you do?"
"Yes, I know you." He reached out to finger a tendril of damp hair that clung to her neck. "You guard yourself carefully. You don't like to depend on anyone. You're determined and strong-willed, and you're decided in your opinions. Not to mention stubborn. But never self-absorbed. And anyone with your intelligence could never be called shallow.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night

“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities”
― Scott Cunningham, Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“In truly understanding the Goddess and God, one comes to understand life, for the two are inextricably entwined. Live your earthly life fully, but try to see the spiritual aspects of your activities as well. Remember—the physical and spiritual are but reflections of each other.”
― Scott Cunningham, Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.”
― Scott Cunningham, Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

“A
human being who has mastered the self cannot be dominated by any other person;
to the contrary, there is a strong tendency for others to seek to emulate and follow
such a master, because they intuitively recognize the value of self-control.”
― Donald Tyson, The Magician's Workbook: Practicing the Rituals of the Western Tradition

“The yogi
tends to work inwardly, focusing on the body, whereas the magus directs the will
outwardly upon the objects of the greater world. This apparent distinction is misleading,
since inner world and outer world have no dividing boundary, but are an
indivisible universe perceived by a single human mind. The ultimate goal is similar
in both practices-to master the personal universe and yoke it to the higher aspirations.”
― Donald Tyson, The Magician's Workbook: Practicing the Rituals of the Western Tradition

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

“بیا تا جهان را به بد نسپریم
به کوشش همه دست نیکی بریم
نباشد همی نیک و بد پایدار
همان به که نیکی بود یادگار”
― Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution

“So long as people were free to choose, if they chose to drink flybane and live in sewers, it was their business. Just so long as it wasn’t the business of Business, the source of profit and the means of power for other people.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution

“Riding, riding, riding, through the dag, through the night, through the day. And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...

...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The more developed the nervous system, the more it will express qualities of pure consciousness — intelligence, creativity, and bliss.
Yoga is the transformation into this Divine, and of this Divine into everything. Meditation is the key”
― Alistair Shearer