The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make…
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
Holding anger is a poison…It eats you from inside…We think that by hating someone we hurt them…But hatred is a curved blade…and the harm we do to others…we also do to ourselves.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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