Christopher
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“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
― Bagombo Snuff Box
― Bagombo Snuff Box
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
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“Every time I meet a prostitute, she wants to talk about God. And every time I meet a priest, he wants to talk about sex.”
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“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
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