"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
Umberto Eco
"A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."
Roy Bennett
"This woman is so didactic I think I may scream. If it's bleeding, bandage it. If it's crying, hug it. If it's hopeless, pray for it. If it's dead, resurrect it."
Rachel Allord
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
Huston Smith
"If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly."
J.Z. Colby
"Better is the enemy of good."
Anonymous
"A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser."
Euclid
"When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
William Faulkner
"The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance."
Vironika Tugaleva
"We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation."
Dashama Konah Gordon
"The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!"
Marianne Williamson
"Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow."
François Lelord
"My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know."
Don Murray
"How you treat an animal often shows your true color."
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