Quotable quotes

[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

 

[opinterph]

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

—Al Franken

 

[Alistair]

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didnt.”

— Khaled Hosseini; The Kite Runner

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

“Remember to pick the boy that will plant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers.”

Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

 

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[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”

- Ranata Suzuki

 

[Rand]

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[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[gsdx]

"Why do bad writers win the fight?
Why do good writers die in need?
Because the writers who can't write
Are read by readers who can't read."

- Piet Hein