"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."
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"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own."
"Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing."
"The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed."
"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
"Facing your fears robs them of their power"
"You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator."
"All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass."
"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway."
"It will hurt."said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness."
"What Ever Happened to Stupid? [10w] ‘I’m only human’,has become everybody’s license to fuck up."
"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."
"Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck."
"Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him."
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
"Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me."
"if you want it really, you get it !!!"
"Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't,"said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around."
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
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