"The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality."
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"It must require bravery to be honest all the time."
"We are not going to die."Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?""No. And do you know why?"He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die."I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die."
"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not."
"Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid."
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
"I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness."
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
"كما قلت لك : ( قلب الرجل لا يخلو من امرأة ) , قد تكون امرأة حية أو ميتة, قد تكون زوجة أو صديقة, وقد تكون شيئًا آخر. دائمًا توجد امرأة.أمّا إذا رأيت رجلاً ليس في قلبه امرأة فتأكّد أن ما تراه ليس رجلاً, إنه جثّة تريد قبرًا."
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
"So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things."
"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."
"After all this time?""Always..."
"When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere"
"If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk"culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye."
"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."
"Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement."
"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."
"Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights."
"I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally."
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