I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a…
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds’ nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.” “Enormous?” said Jace. “Did you just call me…
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
I love mankind … it’s people I can’t stand!!
Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…
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