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E. M. Forster quote: "He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust..."
He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things. E. M. Forster
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. Anthony Bourdain
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing: that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. Anne Lamott
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. Louisa May Alcott
Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Hatred can be overcome only by love."
Hatred can be overcome only by love. Mahatma Gandhi
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that..."
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. Flannery O'Connor
Stephen Covey quote: "If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the..."
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself. Stephen Covey
Elsa Maxwell quote: "laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can"
laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can Elsa Maxwell
I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up, They will think you are original and very witty. Sylvia Plath
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing bybut you have speed far greater. You can climbback up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for hastenor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still--off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed. From one another once you are agreedthat life is... Robert Frost
Ovid quote: "It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes."
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes. Ovid
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee. Suzanne Collins
Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had. James Baldwin
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone. James Dickey

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