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Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure). Elizabeth Gilbert
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau
Euripides quote: "The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which..."
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. Euripides
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found? Martin Buber
John Knowles quote: "I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town,..."
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart. John Knowles
Marcus Aurelius quote: "Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break;..."
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Marcus Aurelius
Sue Grafton quote: "Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people..."
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. Sue Grafton
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never..."
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. F. Scott Fitzgerald
His [George MacDonald]lungs were diseased and his poverty was very great. Literal starvation was sometimes averted only by those last minute deliverances which agnostics attribute to chance and Christians to providence. C. S. Lewis in INTRODUCTION to George MacDonald's LILITH. C. S. Lewis
Shunryu Suzuki quote: "What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we..."
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. Shunryu Suzuki
It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics. Elizabeth Wurtzel
And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever. Leo Tolstoy
harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived. Donna Tartt
I don't know. I suppose I should have had a better idea of what I was letting myself in for. Still, the first murder? the farmer? seemed to have been so simple, a dropped stone falling to the lakebed with scarcely a ripple. The second one was also easy, at least at first, but I had no inkling how different it would be. What we took for a docile, ordinary weight (gentle plunk, swift rush to the bottom, dark waters closing over it without a trace) was in fact a depth charge, one that exploded... Donna Tartt
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menaechmus of talent, has one dupe,--history. Victor Hugo

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