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“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
“We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”
“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
“With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.”
“Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get ...”
“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the ne...”
“Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.”
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
“True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before yo...”
“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ”
“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
“I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It'...”
“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”
“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
“Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.”
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”
“I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.”
