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It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.
I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
With whomever you feel yourself as if you are with your very self, he or she is surely your true Valentine!
Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!
Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!
If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.
I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.
Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.
Just because we believe the gospel is a life-and-death matter doesn't mean we have to act as if we're dead.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.
It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.