“Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
―
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
―
“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
― مثنوی معنوی
― مثنوی معنوی
“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”
― The Belle of Amherst
― The Belle of Amherst
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