"The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves."
Bryant McGill
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!"
Anonymous
"[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is."
David Foster Wallace
"I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play."
Anna Sewell
"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
Doris Day
"Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
George Eliot
"If your food is poison you will understand it."
Deyth Banger
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"Why have we books in heaven?'Why not?' asked my brother. 'What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!..."
Rebecca Ruter Springer
"Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves."
Henry Timrod
"We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem."
Patrick McGrath
"One must not hope to be more than one can be."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead."
Niall Ferguson
"A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights."
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