Handwritten: Your Favourite Quotes

[amberleadavis]

12 hours ago, Detman101 said:

Beauuuuuutiful shading on that one!!
😍

I didn't really see it until you mentioned it. I will have to revisit my review.

[Detman101]

21 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

I didn't really see it until you mentioned it. I will have to revisit my review.

yaaaaaay!! That means more to see!!
Thank you!! 💖

[Paul-in-SF]

This quote may be appropriate to many in this fountain pen world (I know it sometimes is to me):

 

[amberleadavis]

1 hour ago, Paul-in-SF said:

This quote may be appropriate to many in this fountain pen world (I know it sometimes is to me):

 

 

Hence why the story is the Quest not the Possession.  Though, I admit, I'm really enjoying some of my grail pens.  (others weren't as cool as I had hoped)

[amberleadavis]

3 hours ago, Detman101 said:

yaaaaaay!! That means more to see!!
Thank you!! 💖

 

 

 

 

[Distaff]

10 hours ago, Paul-in-SF said:

This quote may be appropriate to many in this fountain pen world (I know it sometimes is to me):

 

Beautiful penmanship!

[Paul-in-SF]

2 hours ago, Distaff said:

Beautiful penmanship!

 

You are too kind! I will only acknowledge that it has gotten better since I started using fountain pens, and that the pen (Osmia 566 with a lovely nib) helps a lot. 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

 

 

Diamine Sepia on Fabriano paper, Kakimori brass nib.

[Ols67]

Here is a fun one!

[webgeckos]

Auguries of Innocence, William Blake.

[txomsy]

Written on a recycled paper notebook from Puerto Rico, with cream colored pages, using a Garant Alkor pen and OS Nitrogen ink.

 

[N1003U]

28 minutes ago, txomsy said:

Written on a recycled paper notebook from Puerto Rico, with cream colored pages, using a Garant Alkor pen and OS Nitrogen ink.

 

Lovely. I like the quote and the ink.

[txomsy]

Written with a Baoer 79 with an FPR flex nib with the EMF modification (i.e. an home-made FPR ultra-flex) and noodler's X-Feather, written on Puerto Rico cream recycled paper.

 

स्वगृहे पूज्यते मूर्खः स्वग्रामे पूज्यते प्रभुः।
स्वदेशे पूज्यते राजा विद्वान्सर्वत्र पूज्यते॥

 

A fool is worshipped at his home.
A chief is worshipped in his town.
A king is worshipped in his kigdom.
A knowledge person is worshipped everywhere.
 

[txomsy]

Jinhao X159 with an FPR flex nib modified with the EMF mod, Koh-i-Noor dokument blue, cream recycled paper from Puerto Rico.

 

अर्थेन हि विहीनस्य पुरुषस्याल्पमेधसः।
क्रियाः सर्वा विनश्यंति ग्रीष्मे कुसरितो यथा॥

 

Of a person who has no money & a little intellect,
all his actions get destroyed like a small river in summer.

 

[A Smug Dill]

 

 

[txomsy]

Baoer 79 with an FPR nib with the EMF mod. Troublemaker Ink Doña Victorina. Cream recycled paper from Puerto Rico.

 

गते शोको न कर्तव्यो भविष्यं नैव चिंतयेत्।
वर्तमानेन कालेन वर्तयंति विचक्षणाः॥

One should not regret the past. One should not worry about the future. Wise men act by the present time.

 

[txomsy]

साधोः प्रकोपितस्यापि मनो नायाति विक्रियाम्।
न हि तापयितुं शक्यं सागरांभस्तृणोल्कया॥

saadhoh prakopitasyaapi mano naayaati vikriyaam
na hi taapayitum shakyam saagaraambhastruNolkayaa

 

Even when instigated by others, the mind of a pious person never hesitates (to take the right decision). It is not possible to heat the water of the ocean with a torch made of dried grass.

 

Written on cream colored recycled paper from Puerto Rico with a noname Kaweco Brass Sport clone, using Noodler's Polar Blue ink.

 

[txomsy]

गुणा: गुणज्ञेषु गुणीभवन्ति
ते निर्गुणं प्राप्य भवन्ति दोषा:
सुस्वादुतोया: प्रवहंति नद्य:
समुद्रमासाद्य भवन्त्यपेय:

 

With virtuous persons, virtues remain virtues. On reaching a non-virtuous person, they become faults. A river flowing with sweet water, becomes salty when reaching the ocean.

 

Noname Kaweco Sport clone. Noodler's Lexington Grey

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

@txomsy From whom have you been pulling all those quotes lately?  Did they all come from a single book (by a single author?), or were they drawn from multiple sources? If it's from a single source, I might like to read (a translated version of) it.

 

Thanks!

[txomsy]

I started by rescuing some quotes I had collected while preparing for a course in Sri Lanka (I like to include 'apropos' local quotes in the slides of international courses). These quotes I had searched for in the Internet but hadn't collected the source.

 

They are Sanskrit Shlokas from different various ancient book sources, some of which I already knew having the books. Others were new to me. Mostly from the Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana or Mahabharata. I had stopped noting down or underlining quotes in the late 90's as it was easier to find them in Altavista, Yahoo or Google.

 

This time I was searching for the quotes in Google but couldn't exactly match them, although I could find some and now I picked some URLs for future reference:

 

http://www.sanskrittranslations.com/

 

https://sanskritagain.com/sanskrit-shlokas-sanskrit-quotes-thoughts-slokas-with-meaning-in-hindi-english/

https://resanskrit.com/blogs/blog-post/sanskrit-shlok-popular-quotes-meaning-hindi-english

 

The original books I had downloaded long ago, from Project Gutenberg, SacredTexts.com, Archive.org or other sources and I have them usually (with a huge collection of many other books) in my cell phone, tablet, laptop (home and work) and several external hard disks.

 

There is a expired copyright collection of eastern ancient texts, "Sacred Books of the East", which is some 50 volumes. One source of the collection is at kelasa.org

 

That is besides the physical books in my personal library, some of which are in original+transliteration+translation. I do like to read books in their original language whenever possible, even if I do not know it. I've found oftentimes I end up picking common words repeated here and there.

 

Just one word of caution.

 

Better not get me started on my books. If I am usually verbose, I lose all limits when talking of books.