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Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. —Hans Christian Andersen
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. —Mark Twain
“You know what this is like? This is like getting in trouble at school and being marched back to the classroom to humbly take your medicine. How do you know he’s not a serial killer?” “I’m not,” said an amused voice. “Don’t you just have the worst habit of sneaking up on people!” she said. “This old man is a heart patient!”
No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. —Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I thought coming back here would help me get perspective,” she said. “We been in Denver, Maggie. We haven’t been back two full days. Even God needed seven to get it together. Jesus.” He ran a hand over his head and wandered back to his bedroom. “I’ve always had kind of high expectations of myself,” she yelled at his back. “No shit,” he returned.
To find yourself, think for yourself. —Socrates
It’s the way we don’t tell the most important people in our lives the most important things. It was how men tended to be.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. —Coco Chanel
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. —Mother Teresa
Do you think I’m socially handicapped?” “Maybe a little bit,” he said.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. —Sir John Lubbock
Life was precious and not to be taken for granted,
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. —William Wordsworth
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. —Horace Mann
