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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they are impossible.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes, as long as you take the trouble to learn from them.

They're all the wrong way. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them have to be right.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

From now on I'm going to have a very good reason before I make up my mind about anything. You can lose too much time jumping to conclusions.

Did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.

A sound which is not heard disappears forever and is not to be found again.

"That was a very beautiful sunset," said Milo, walking to the podium. "It should be," was the reply; "we've been practicing since the world began."

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

Today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

You weren't thinking, and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way.

As he and his unhappy thoughts hurried along, it seemed a great wonder that the world, which was so large, sometimes could feel so small and empty.

Grown-up human beans is not famous for their kindness. They is all squifflerotter or a grinksludger.

Nothing's ever the same, she said. Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and rolling. And people change as much as oceans.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

मानव स्वभाव है; वह अपने सुख को विस्तृत करना चाहता है. और भी, केवल अपने सुख से ही सुखी नहीं होता, कभी कभी दूसरों को दुखी करके, अपमानित करके, अपने मान को, सुख को प्रतिष्ठित करता है.

पशुओं को खाते खाते मनुष्य, पशुओं में भोजन की जगह भी खाने लगे. वाह रे समय!

Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking. These are the little secrets that make it your home.

Then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all it's perfection, but rather its imperfections. You get to know all the nooks and crannies. How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock when it's cold outside.
CONTD...

Loving someone is like moving into a new house. At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren't actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this.
CONTD...

Men in white shirts always win. And men like Ove always lose people like Sonja. And nothing can bring her back to him.

But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.

Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.

You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.

He liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable. They could be calculated and drawn on paper. They did not leak if they were made watertight, they did not collapse if they were properly supported. Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people.