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“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 will change outer reality.”
― Otto Rank

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie’s age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. (All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.)”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

“There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Best Kept Secret

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob