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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
Explore more quotes by Tahir Shah
"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
"I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand."
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