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Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
- Thomas Merton
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
- William James
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
- Andy Rooney
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
- Peter Kreeft
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
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