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“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
“Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.”
“I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if youre bent over about the color, d...”
“Never, never marry, my friend. Heres my advice to you: dont marry until you can tell yourself that youve done all you could, and until youve stopped loving the woman youve chosen, until you see her...”
“It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.”
“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own ...”
“Were miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole enti...”
“Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.”
“All that glitters is not hovery.”
“with his customary crooked smile, are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”
“Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. Ill bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.”
“Maybe he didnt really encourage me to do things, but he didnt prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didnt do things because I didnt want him to think different about me. But the t...”
“In the end, it doesnt matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplisheda life without heart is not worth living.”
“Theres a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”
“sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .”
“Almost everybody I know has died, Grandma said. Bunch of wimps.”
“Mama says its just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns.”
“And when again its morning, they ll wash away. Here its safe, here its warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm”
“Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”
