“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?”
Chanakya
“We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
Milan Kundera
“When we conceived the Mir, we didn't think much about its end, the prospect seemed so distant and we had many other things to do,”
Yuri Semyonov
“No matter how isolated, extreme and distant from the mainstream faith, when adherents of your faith - some sect that calls itself Muslim - carries out acts of terrorism in the name of Islamic extremism, then the spiritual head of that movement is fair game for editorials and cartoons. I don?t know how you divorce one from the other.”
Charles Davis
“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”
Freya Stark
“When it shall come into their sight from a distant place, they shall hear its vehement raging and roaring.”
quran
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.”
Hal Borland
