Harsimran Khural > Harsimran's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”
― Francis Pharcellus Church, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know