Literature is my Utopia
HELEN KELLERStrange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Let’s say I’m at a party and I don’t like the feeling I’m getting, I’ll just leave. Why do I have to be there?
AARON BRUNO -
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
SHARON SALZBERG -
How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault.
OPRAH WINFREY -
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
BOBBY SCOTT -
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER -
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDEN -
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
CHARLES DICKENS -
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
As soon as you lay down, that’s when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. ‘Goodnight, baby.’ ‘Do you think we were together in a past life?’ ‘Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.’ ‘Don’t you feel like we’re soul…’
ADAM FERRARA -
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK -
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER -
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
JORGE LUIS BORGES