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Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. Gordon B. Hinckley
Robert Graves quote: "I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But..."
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. Robert Graves
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great... Charles Alexander Eastman
John Stuart Mill quote: "I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."
I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too. John Stuart Mill
Socrates quote: "I neither know nor think that I know"
I neither know nor think that I know Socrates
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I... Werner Heisenberg
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. Dorothy L. Sayers
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things. Hippocrates
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. E. M. Forster
The thing that worries me is that I'm so different from other writers. Connecticut is just another state to me. And nature - well, nature is just nature. When I see a tree whose leafy mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast, I think, 'Well, that's a nice-looking oak,' but it doesn't change my way of life. Now I'm not going to stand here and run down trees and flowers. Personally, I have three snake plants of my own, and in a tearoom I'm the first one to notice the... Jean Kerr
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist. Margaret Atwood
E. M. Forster quote: "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
How do I know what I think until I see what I say? E. M. Forster
Neil Gaiman quote: "Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's..."
Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough. Neil Gaiman
Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. Ellen DeGeneres
Stephen King quote: "What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are..."
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... Stephen King

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