A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.Sir Winston Churchill

The whole art of life is in knowing how to transform anxiety into laughter.Alan Watts

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson

When you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.Saint Francis of Assisi

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.Audre Lorde

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.Eric Hoffer

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson

What is now proved was once imagined.William Blake

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.Albert Camus

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-- not absence of fear.Mark Twain

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.William Hazlitt

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andres Maurois

The one thing that is certain
is that anyone who uses the phrase "outside the box"
is as deeply inside the box
as a person can be.Michael Lewis

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac

The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always take the high road; it’s far less crowded.Charlie Munger

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson

Men who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances, to choose one's own way.Viktor Frankl

Time makes more converts than reason.Thomas Paine

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.Audre Lorde

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.Henry Kissinger

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore H. White

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Jackson

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. J.K. Rowling

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.Jenny Joseph

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.Henry Miller

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.Arnold Toynbee

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark Twain

If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.Seneca Seneca

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.Mark Twain

Once we admit that there is room for newness, that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes, we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrary small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.Paul Romer

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Mohandas Gandhi

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.Vaclav Havel

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.Bobby Murcer

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.Sir Winston Churchill

And here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see. What is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.Martin Luther

Be noble! And the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.James Russell Lowell

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing somebody.Edward Blake

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.Franklin D. Roosevelt

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.Heinrich Heine

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

True dignity is never gained by place, And never lost when honors are withdrawn.Philip Massinger

Turning your back on the darkness doesn’t mean the darkness will turn its back on you.Jennifer Donnelly

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.Neale Donald Walsch

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.Robert Heinlein

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.Logan Pearsall Smith

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.Rae Smith

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.Lao Tzu

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?Elizabeth Bishop

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-- I welcome it.John F. Kennedy

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anais Nin

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.G K Chesterton

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.Henry Ford

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.Kimberly Johnson

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Pablo Picasso

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.John F. Kennedy

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Listen to the people who are most quiet.Sahil Lavingia

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.Greg Norman

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.Thomas Carlyle

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.Dag Hammarskjold

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.Andrew Harvey

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.R. D. Laing

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.Mother Teresa

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.Erich Fromm

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.Aristotle Aristotle

They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.Curt Cobain

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau

Nobody sees a flower -really- it is so small it takes time -we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.Georgia O'Keeffe

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness- that is a friend who cares.Henri Nouwen

You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.Sir Winston Churchill

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.Henry Miller

When you climb, it is the mountain as much as your own legs which lifts you upwards.Alan Watts

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.Ray Charles

Early on, write your desired obituary— and then behave accordingly.Charlie Munger

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.Itzhak Perlman

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.Stephen Grillet

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.Ben Stein

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.Helen Keller

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Patience: n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.Ambrose Bierce

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.John Banville

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.Will Rogers

The things that we love tell us what we are.St. Thomas Aquinas

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know".W. Somerset Maugham

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding? What if laughter were really tears?Søren Kierkegaard

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.H.L. Mencken

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.Herodotus Herodotus

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine

There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing: I do the things that I believe ought to be done... And when I wake up my mind to do a thing, I act.Theodore Roosevelt

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time, you thief! who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad; Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me. Leigh Hunt

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it.Bob Metcalfe

Love is a kind of warfare.Ovid Ovid

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.Booker T. Washington

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.Cicero Cicero

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.James Russell Lowell

Everything is practice.Pele Pele

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.Bertrand Russell

If you are going through hell, keep going.Sir Winston Churchill

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.Dick Cavett

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.Francis Bacon

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.Noel Coward

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved-- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.George Bernard Shaw

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.J.M. Barrie

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Sir Isaac Newton

For myself, I am an optimist; it does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Churchill

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.Dorothea Lange

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. ... The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.George Eliot

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.G K Chesterton

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.Harold Wilson

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.Flannery O'Connor

How did it get so late so soon?Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.Pythagoras Pythagoras

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?Lance Armstrong

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood Violent, vivid and of infinite possibility: That the sun and moon broke over my head.Richard Eberhart

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.Don DeLillo

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.Henry Van Dyke

Give me six lines written by the most honorable man, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.Cardinal Richelieu

We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them.George W. Bush

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.Søren Kierkegaard

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.Alfred D'Souza

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.Igor Stravinsky

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.Martin Luther, Jr. King

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.Farrah Gray

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.David Grayson

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.John Donne

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.Will Durant

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.Jonathan Swift

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.Ruth Gordon

If one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being.Niccolo Machiavelli

If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities.Joseph Conrad

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.Abraham Maslow

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.Claude Monet

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.Anais Nin

It is better to be wounded than always to walk in armor.Margaret Fuller

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.Eric Hoffer

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.Joseph Conrad

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Miller

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.Humphrey Davy

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Francis Bacon

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.Tony Robbins

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie I

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.Joseph Joubert

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switzer

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Robert Brault

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.G K Chesterton

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly. That is the first law of nature.Joseph Conrad

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.Anais Nin

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.Samuel Butler

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.Erich Fromm

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andre Gide

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.Albert Einstein

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.William Allen White

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.William James

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies

He who is merely just is severe.Voltaire Voltaire

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.Aldous Huxley

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton

No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor

The whole world loves a maverick, but the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.Kevin Patterson

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.Etienne Gilson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.R. Buckminster Fuller

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.Thomas Alva Edison

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.Steve Goodier

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.Casey Stengel

I praise loudly; I blame softly.Catherine II

A poet who knows what it is he wants to say may be sure it's been said already.Hugh Kenner

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.Stephen Covey

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor Roosevelt

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is! It's gone.George Carlin

You may have a fresh start anytime you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.Mary Pickford

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.Dalai Lama

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.Mark Twain

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.Jean Giraudoux

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.Lawrence J. Peter

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac

At bottom, every man knows perfectly well that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.Dante Alighieri

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the mediocre are always at their best.Jean Giraudoux

You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.Charlie Munger

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther, Jr. King

Let no one be dismayed that there is nothing that one man or woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each can do some small act, and in the sum of these events will be written the history of our generation.Robert F. Kennedy

Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder... Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.Martin Luther, Jr. King

It is a myth, not a mandate; a fable, not a logic; and a symbol, rather than a reason; by which men are moved.Irwin Edman

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.Pericles Pericles

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.Mohandas Gandhi

Anyone who gives up liberty for safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin Franklin

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.Thomas Paine

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.Arthur Ashe

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.Jalal Rumi

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.Gustave Flaubert

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.Oscar Wilde

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