[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by Blue_Phoenix

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

From Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams.

Blooey, you would LOVE that book.

nice i'll keep a lookout for it. Douglas Adams's books are rarely sold in charity shops though unless it's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. That seems to appear a lot

[AmroodWaala]

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. The Antilles Negro who wants to be white will be the whiter as he gains greater mastery of the cultural tool that language is.

Rather more than a year ago in Lyon, I remember, in a lecture I had drawn a parallel between the Negro and European poetry, and a French acquaintance told me enthusiastically, 'At the bottom you are a white man.'

The fact that I had been able to investigate so interesting a problem through the white man's language gave me honorary citizenship"

Frantz Fanon [1967]

[Blue_Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

nice i'll keep a lookout for it. Douglas Adams's books are rarely sold in charity shops though unless it's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. That seems to appear a lot

That's because the Hitchhiker's books are his schtick. They'll always be around. But he did a few other books too. Last Chance to See was the one he was most proud of. It's about his search for endangered wildlife, it's very funny and deeply moving. But it's unfortunately also the hardest to find. I gave it to my sister, an aspiring zoologist, as a gift and had to order it special from Media Play.

[Bluestar]

"Lost.
Several golden minutes between sunrise and sunset.
No reward is offered as they are lost forever."

A victorian school exhibited to the public on the south coastal path in Dorset.

[Bluestar]

Permanent Home, the impossible dream

Love has power against sorrow

West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary.

[Bluestar]

...gossip not only distorts the truth, it also soils those who spread it.

Rumi's Daughter by Muriel Maufroy

[Bluestar]

The rays of the Sun may be obscured by the clouds,
but the light of the sun still illuminates the earth
The rose may be hidden by the eye,
yet the wind still carries its frangrance.
Don't you know that whatever the heart may feel, souls never stop conversing?

Rumi's Daughter

[Raeesa]

Some absolutely wonderful quotes on this..

the following one stuck out for me:

I cannot help but wonder, however, if we do not invent our own destiny, design our own fate, to suit our circumstances. How much of love is a trick of the mind, a mere feat of verbal acrobatics, to accommodate persons who just happen to cross our path and who suit our needs at one particular moment in time?
-- Anita Shreve

heres my contribution:

"All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." As you like it, Shakespeare

[Zeinab]

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

[AM415]

Sorry guys, this ones in Arabic...but its an amazing quote from a book I saw in the middle-east:


لا اكل بيض اخضر و خنزير
لا أحبهما ، أنا سمير

[Blue_Phoenix]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Sea_of_Roses]

I cannot say
that I have gone to hell
for your love

but often
found myself there
in your pursuit.


-William Carlos Williams

[Abu_Hind]

‘Umar ibn al-Khattab (RA) said:“The best days of our lives were ours by virtue of patience.”


(quoted in "Patience and Gratitude" an abridged translation of Imam Ibn Qayyim's Uddat as-sabirin wa dhakirat ash-shakirin)

[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by AM415

Sorry guys, this ones in Arabic...but its an amazing quote from a book I saw in the middle-east:


لا اكل بيض اخضر و خنزير
لا أحبهما ، أنا سمير

i don't eat green eggs and pigs
I don't love them, I am Samir?

[Abu_Hind]

Originally Posted by AM415

Sorry guys, this ones in Arabic...but its an amazing quote from a book I saw in the middle-east:


لا اكل بيض اخضر و خنزير
لا أحبهما ، أنا سمير

Haha, this is hilarious. It reminded my of that Amitabh bhachan song, '...ya ali ya ali, rehta hoon mein masjid wali gali...'