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Jane Austen quote: "pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what..."
pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. William James
We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life. Nicolas Chamfort
...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by. Jack Kerouac
Frank Herbert quote: "The universe does not work by our rules"
The universe does not work by our rules Frank Herbert
Simone Weil quote: "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means..."
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? Simone Weil
For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down. Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen quote: "We do not look in great cities for our best morality."
We do not look in great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen
Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust"
God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust Aiden Wilson Tozer
You, you only, exist.We pass away, till at last,our passing is so immensethat you arise: beautiful moment,in all your suddenness,arising in love, or enchantedin the contraction of work.To you I belong, however time maywear me away. From you to youI go commanded. In betweenthe garland is hanging in chance; but if youtake it up and up and up: look:all becomes festival! Rainer Maria Rilke
Roald Dahl quote: "Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve."
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. Roald Dahl
Stephen King quote: "We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably..."
We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well. Stephen King
Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with Dallas Willard
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. Doug Coupland
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails. Nick Hornby

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