Suffering - Quotes

Affliction is a spiritual physic for the soul, and is compared to a furnace, for as gold is tried and purified therein, so men are proved and either purified from their dross, and fitted for good uses, or else entirely burnt up and undone forever. - Wellins Calcott

All suffering contorts the countenance so woefully that the pain flies to the beholder likewise. - James Vila Blake

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. - George Eliot

I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear – not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them. - Jan Frazier

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. - Stefan Zweig

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. - Aeschylus

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Learn to bear suffering, and it shall bear thee. - Ivan Panin

Nothing brings suffering as does the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart. That heart brings suffering. - Gautama Buddha

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. - Walter Savage Landor

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. - Charles Dickens

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed. - Henry Ward Beecher

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food – it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on. - George Eliot

There is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart. - Charles Reade

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson. - Arthur Lynch

To be most fertile, the soil must first be torn up; and shall not thy soul accept suffering for the sake of better growth? - Ivan Panin

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. - C. S. Lewis

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, he allows it to spill all over the people around him. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Life - Quotes

The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. - Eckhart Tolle

It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life. - Anne Lamott

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. - Philip Roth

Inch by inch. Life is a cinch. Yard by yard. Life is hard. - John Updike

Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us. - John Mitchell

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? - William Henry Davies

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. - Vernon Howard

Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself. - Sukhraj S. Dhillon

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. - Matt Cameron

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. - Wayne Dyer

Life has its little ups and downs. - Unknown

But how could you live and have no story to tell? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. - Robert Browning

Lighten your life with a simple life! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. - Christian Gellert

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever. - Tim Lebbon

Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes, it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. - Keri Russell

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead. - Oscar Wilde

Life was a storm to wander through. - Stephen Vincent Benet

Life has a very simple plot: first you’re here and then you’re not. - Eric Idle

Live generously, in every area of life, and you live richly. - Ralph Marston

The school of life never stops teaching. - Steven Aitchison

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. - Oprah Winfrey

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
if I can ease one life the aching,
or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson

Standing at the foot of the mountain and staring at the top won’t get you there. Putting one foot forward and climbing that first step is what takes you to your goals for success. - Unknown

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. - Niccolo Machiavelli

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. - Thich Nhat Hanh

It’s hard when you miss people. But you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing. - Unknown

You have the power to change anything, because you are the one who chooses your thoughts and you are the one who feels your feelings. - Abraham Hicks

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. - Lao Tzu

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. - Stephen Hawking

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. - Amelia Earhart

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Truth - Quotes

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge

In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than our own practice of the truth. Others are powerless; as we sow we reap. - Unknown

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Unknown

In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie. - Austin O’Malley

Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. - Robert M. Pirsig

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. - Thomas Huxley

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. - Horace Mann

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it. - John Locke

It is not telling the truth that is difficult, it is telling the whole truth. - Unknown

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. - K. T. Jong

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. - Austin O’Malley

It only takes a few minutes to see the truth of an entire lifetime. - Scott Calvin

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau

Let us begin by commiting ourselves to the truth – to see it like it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. - Richard Nixon

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn. - Brigham Young

Lots of times we don’t even tell people the truth of what we really think because we’re afraid to hurt them and we want to save their feelings, whereas it would be better for them if we were just lovingly honest with them. - Unknown

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe. - William Somerset Maugham

Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it. - Reuen Thomas

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as nothing happened. - Winston Churchill

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. - George R.R. Martin

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. - Robert Frost

Love - Quotes

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael Leunig

In every living thing, there is the desire for love. - D. H. Lawrence

I don’t think you can define love. - Harry Styles

To love truly we must accept others as they are without any expectations. - Unknown

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love. - LaToya Jackson

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. - Stephen Stills

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. - Kahlil Gibran

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support. - William Shakespeare

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. - Paulo Coelho

So, it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Somewhere there must one made for this soul, to move it. - William Johnson Cory

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime. - Unknown

Love not what you are, but what you may become. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Real love you feel it, you see it, you show it! But fake love is just words. - Unknown

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. - Simon Cowell

A true lover is someone who walks a million miles just to be with the one. - Francis Ackah-blay

Everything is clearer when you’re in love. - John Lennon

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile. - David Myers

Distance is just a test to see how far True Love can travel. - Unknown

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Sometimes, the best thing you can do is keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. The truth always comes out in the end. - Unknown

Sometimes, it’s not the song that makes you emotional. it’s the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it. - Unknown

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know. - Unknown

Sometimes we are so busy living our fears that we forgot to live our dreams. - Steven Aitchison

Sometimes, it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. - Tony Blair

Sometimes, it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes, music is the only thing that gets your mind off of everything else. - Unknown

Sometimes, we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. - Donna Tartt

Sometimes, reality is too complex. Stories give it form. - Jean Luc Godard

Sometimes you have to leave, not for ego but for self respect. - Unknown

Sometimes, only time can answer your questions. - Unknown

Sometimes, caring too much can cause you hurt. - Unknown

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Mind - Quotes

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius

The most dangerous weapon of a warrior is his mind. - Kaustav Ram

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. - Franklin Roosevelt

Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes. - James Allen

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. - Stephen Richards

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. - Lord Thomas Dewar

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Minds that have nothing to confer find little to perceive. - William Wordsworth

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss. - Edward Dyer

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere. - W.H. Davies

No mind can run continually and remain effective. Remember, even a paddy field needs a good rest after a harvest in order to produce quality crops in the future. - Unknown

No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. - Samuel Johnson

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. - Arnold Bennett

None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley

Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, nor waves, nor winds. - Francis Quarles

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind. - Unknown

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose. - Dan Brown

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. - Seneca

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. - John Maynard Keynes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. - Benjamin Disraeli

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Quincy Adams

One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts, but one can have a mind that is content with whatever thoughts fill it at the moment. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life - Quotes

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. - Stephen Chbosky

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Life moves on and so should we. - Spencer Johnson

I love life because what more is there. - Sir Anthony Hopkins

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. - Seneca

Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. - Maya Angelou

Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose. - Ernest Hemingway

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Dalai Lama

How beautiful it is to be alive! - Henry S. Sutton

He lives long who lives well. - J. Wilson

Live a simple life. Enjoy life and be happy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. - Miguel Ruiz

Life itself is simple… it’s just not easy. - Steve Maraboli

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche

When life’s path is steep, keep your mind even. - Horace

You can’t control life, but you can control the way you see life. - Unknown

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. - Henry Ford

We have only one life to live, we must live it now. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice. - Chamfort

Man's life is like the morning dew. - Japanese Proverb

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game. - Grenville Kleiser

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Sometimes, people haven’t apologized because they are ashamed. Forgive them anyway! Sometimes, you have to be okay with a sorry you never got. Forgiveness unblocks your blessing. - Unknown

Sometimes, it is better to be kind than to be right. We do not need and intelligent mind that speak, but a patient heart that listens. - Unknown

Sometimes, giving someone a second chance is like giving someone an extra bullet because they missed you the first time. - Unknown

Sometimes, it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. - Edward Albee

Sometimes, we put up walls, not to keep people out but to see who cares enough to knock them down. - Unknown

Sometimes, we must fail in order to know. We must hurt in order to grow. We must lose in order to gain. - Nicole

Sometimes, we get so caught up in our emotions, that we forget to listen to the whispers of our hearts. - Unknown

Sometimes it is best not to know, because if we knew, we may wish we had never known at all. - Tom Tatum

Sometimes, I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. - Unknown

Sometimes, you just need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul. - Unknown

Sometimes, it’s good to leave the world behind for a while and just be by yourself. - Steven Aitchison

Sometimes, it feels so good to just sit by yourself, relax and not talk to anyone. - Kristen Butler More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy

Choices

Choice is the most powerful tool we have. Everything boils down to choice. We exist in a field of infinite possibilities. Every choice we make shuts an infinite number of doors and opens an infinite number of doors. At any point we can change the direction of our lives by a simple choice. It is all in our hands, our hearts, and our minds. - Unknown

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices. - Albus Dumbledore

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling

It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs. - Irish Proverb

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. - Charles Caleb Colton

Look at the choices you have, as opposed to the choices that have been taken away from you. Because in those choices, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things. - Michael J. Fox

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. - James Allen

No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice. - Deepak Chopra

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montapert

One of the most difficult choices to make is whether you should just move on or hold on a little longer. - Unknown

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you. - Jacqueline Carey

The choosy sometimes get the dregs. - Japanese Proverb

The difficulty in life is the choice. - George Moore

The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. - Dinobot

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. - Unknown

The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. - Charles Lamb

The more you pick and choose, the more you stand to lose. - Yiddish Proverb

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. - Elizabeth Gilbert

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. - Lucas Scott

There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones. - Unknown

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision. - Herbert V. Prochnow

To choose, is to will one thing before another; and to will, is to bend our souls to the having or doing of that which they see to be good. - Richard Hooker

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. - Patrick Ness

We all have dark desires, yearnings for vengeance; and you must remember how those feelings stirred your blood... because what marks the line between good and evil is the choice not to act on them. - Zeddicus Zul Zorander

We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser. - Mary Crowley

We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, they define who we are. - Stefan Salvatore

What happens if your choice is misguided? You must try to correct it. But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it. - Libba Bray

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose. - Jarod Kintz

When you can’t have what you choose, you just choose what you have. - Owen Wister

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. - Philip Pullman

When you make a choice, you change the future. - Deepak Chopra

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. -  Dr. Wayne W Dyer

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow I to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you town. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you. - Josh Shipp

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you. - Rick Yancey

You've got choices...but if you make the wrong ones, it'll haunt you for the rest of your life. - Sam Winchester

You - Quotes

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. - Unknown

Your talent determines what you do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Davidson

If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost. - Unknown

Ignore the drama. Ignore the hatred. Ignore the pain. Fine peace. Fined happiness. Find yourself. - Unknown

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today. - Unknown

Who you were, who you are, and who you will become, are all different people. - Unknown

You will blossom and bloom in your own time in your own way. - Sherri Bishop

You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with, the conversations you engage in. choose wisely what you feed your mind. - Unknown

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you. - Lisa Kleypas

You can meet somebody tomorrow who has better intentions for you than someone you’ve know forever. Time means nothing. - Unknown

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. - Stephen King

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need. - The Rolling Stones

You can’t change how people feel about you, but you can change how you feel about yourself. - Unknown

You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy! - Unknown

You can't change who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn't. - Rob Thurman

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person’. It makes you human. - Unknown

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. - Louise Hay

You have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you. - Jerry Zucker

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. - Unknown

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. - Unknown

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz

Love - Quotes

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. - Leonardo da Vinci

Love doesn’t drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. - Helen Gurley Brow

Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I love you’ or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily. - Elizabeth Bourgeret

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. - Thomas Merton

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. - Robert Fulghum

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. - Bell Hooks

Love clamours far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! - Marie Corelli

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can’t live without it. - Unknown

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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. - Arthur Koestler

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime. - Ethel Person

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be. - Ron Hall

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. - I Ching

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script. - Tom Wolfe

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. - Honor de Balzac, Pere Goriot

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. - Jean Baudrillard

It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them. - George Washington

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers. - Patrick Rothfuss

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it’s music or feelings or love. They’re things we can’t really see or touch. They’re not material, but they’re vitally important to us. - Judy Collins

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