Sangram Takmoge > Sangram's Quotes

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka

“In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“People think they understand things because they become familiar with them. This is only superficial knowledge. It is the knowledge of the astronomer who knows the names of the stars, the botanist who knows the classification of the leaves and flowers, the artist who knows the aesthetics of green and red. This is not to know nature itself- the earth and sky, green and red. Astronomer, botanist, and artist have done no more than grasp impressions and interpret them, each within the vault of his own mind. The more involved they become with the activity of the intellect, the more they set themselves apart and the more difficult it becomes to live naturally.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not “know” a single one.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse. It has only served to separate man from nature. Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness.
Agriculture must change from large mechanical operations to small farms attached only to life itself. Material life and diet should be given a simple place. If this is done, work becomes pleasant, and spiritual breathing space becomes plentiful.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“My father's remedy for her was the same as it had been for me. “Stop acting so dramatic.” He would bellow. Every human emotion was seen by him as a ploy of some kind for attention. Attention he was incapable of giving. I was still floundering but I had learned a few things along the way about the human psyche. So I jumped right in and answered all my sister's questions about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. None of which I had mastered. It's so much easier to see what other people are doing wrong.”
― Emma Feix Alberts, What The Hell Was I Thinking

“When the deep feelings about my father began to surface, I quit. This however did not deter me from continuing my ongoing analysis of my parent’s faults.”
― Emma Feix Alberts, What The Hell Was I Thinking

“If you own a retail company, another key factor in the analysis is figuring out whether the company is nearing the end of its expansion phase—what I call the “late innings” in its ball game. When a Radio Shack or a Toys “R” Us has established itself in 10 percent of the country, it’s a far different prospect than having stores in 90 percent of the country. You have to keep track of where the future growth is coming from and when it’s likely to slow down.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“Beyond that, I’m still harboring an ample supply of clunkers that sell for considerably less than the price I paid. I’m not keeping these disappointment companies because I’m stubborn or nostalgic. I’m keeping them because in each of these companies, the finances are in decent shape and there’s evidence of better times ahead.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“a cheap stock can always get cheaper. Someday, Bethlehem Steel may rise again. But assuming that will happen is wishing, not investing.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“It’s true that interest rates are lower today than they were in 1989, so you’d expect yields on bonds and dividends on stocks to be lower.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“People are advised to think long-term, but the constant comment on every gyration puts people on edge and keeps them focused on the short term.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In