“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.”
― Don Quixote: The Funniest and Most Tragic Picaresque Satire – A Masterful Translation of Cervantes' Spanish Classic
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.”
― Don Quixote: The Funniest and Most Tragic Picaresque Satire – A Masterful Translation of Cervantes' Spanish Classic
“Don't ask the world to change....you change first.”
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.”
― One Minute Wisdom
― One Minute Wisdom
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