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W. Somerset Maugham quote: "There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can..."
There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless. W. Somerset Maugham
?ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: A rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou
Someone asked the other day, "Why do we go to school?" Pat, with vigorunusual in her, said, "So when we grow up we won't be stupid." Thesechildren equate stupidity with ignorance. Is this what they mean when theycall themselves stupid? Is this one of the reasons why they are so ashamed ofnot knowing something? If so, have we, perhaps un-knowingly, taught themto feel this way? We should clear up this distinction, show them that it ispossible to know very few facts, but make very good use of... John Holt
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. Carl Jung
I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that? David Foster Wallace
Paulo Coelho quote: "Give yourself freedom to try out new things. Don't be so set..."
Give yourself freedom to try out new things. Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. Paulo Coelho
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still..."
Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up. Chuck Palahniuk
He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes. Alice Hoffman
9.01 Nausea catalogs the indigestible contents of the stomach that are to be brought up.9.02 Memory that is nauseating catalogs the contents of the mind that can never be brought up. E. L. Doctorow
Going your own way shouldn't stop them from being happy with you."My brother and my sisters, they're clerks and parents and settled sort of people. I'm a puzzle, and sooner or later when you can't solve a puzzle, you have to think there's somthing wrong with it. Else there's something wrong with you."You ran away," she murmured. He wasn't sure he liked the phrase, but nodded. "In a sense, I suppose, and as fast as I could. What's the point in looking back?"But he was looking back, Keeley... Nora Roberts
Jonathan Lethem quote: "You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it."
You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it. Jonathan Lethem
I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me. Graham Greene
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, "That man!" ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, "That woman!" Elizabeth Gaskell
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes...."
Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes. Are initial drafts. And not the final version. Sri Chinmoy
But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. Amy Tan

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