"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
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"Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?"
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."
"Love Scars Love leaves more scars than a ten car pile-up ~and nobody's got insurance."
"Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends."
"... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
"It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
"...Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry..."
"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."
"People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it,"I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course,"I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."
"CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it."
"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."
"Styx Haiku Boatman refusesto paddle me down the Styx.'No carry-on baggage."
"The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets."
"I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more."
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