We don’t see things the way they are; we see them the way we are.
Anais Nin
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The deep pain that…
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sorrow makes us all…
Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live would be…
To live would be an awful big adventure.
J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
When you are sorrowful…
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
As is a tale…
As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is—is what matters.
Seneca
What we achieve inwardly…
What we achieve inwardly will change outward reality.
Plutarch
J. K. Rowling delivers commencement speech at Harvard University, June 2008.
There is an expiry date…
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.
J. K. Rowling (at Harvard University, delivering commencement speech. June 2008)
What is man? A…
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
André Malraux
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