Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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