Quotes of Michael Ondaatje

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Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

- Michael Ondaatje

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“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Friendship not defined by words Friendship only defined by action ”

- Arshdeep Singh Samrala

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli