"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."
Alexander Pope
"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
W. H. Auden
"Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves."
John Weece
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process."
Elif Shafak
"Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!"
Carl William Brown
"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."
Mahatma Gandhi
"An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime."
Unarine Ramaru
"I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things."
Richard Byrd
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration."
William Hazlitt
"How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse."
Norman Mailer
"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don’t straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
Dada Bhagwan
"That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan,” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost."
Karen Miller
"They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation."
Richard Adams
"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."
Francis Bacon
"... Vampires are like gourmet chocolate - oh, so tempting, but overindulgence is a killer."
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