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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men..."
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? Max Muller
Girls get a lot of mixed messages—they are told, ‘Girl Power!’ and what does that mean? It means you wear a T-shirt that says, ‘Girl Power!’ but you call each other bitches. You make fun of a girl for being a virgin and you make fun of a girl for having sex. There’s no right place to be. Tina Fey
Mark Helprin quote: "And how does God speak to you?"In the language of everything..."
And how does God speak to you?"In the language of everything that is beautiful. Mark Helprin
I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. Fyodor Dostoevsky
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. Marianne Williamson
How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years."Then you have probably forgotten all about it."Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it. Jose Rizal
Earl Nightingale quote: "A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read."
A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read. Earl Nightingale
Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you? Margaret Atwood
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer. Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith,..."
Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life. Leo Tolstoy
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day. Marcel Proust
Paulo Coelho quote: "We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen,..."
We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
What I call my philosophy of teaching is in fact a philosophy of learning. It comes out of Plato, modified. Before true learning can occur, I believe, there must be in the student's heart a certain yearning for the truth, a certain fire. The true student burns to know. In the teacher she recognizes, or apprehends, the one who has come closer than herself to the truth. So much does she desire the truth embodied in the teacher that she is prepared to burn her old self up to attain it. For his... J. M. Coetzee
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one? Joseph Heller

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