“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
– Tom Perrotta
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Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
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Beautiful stuff – Ray Bradbury
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
– Ray Bradbury
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Try – James Clear
“Try things until something comes easily.”
– James Clear
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Time – Blaise Pascal
“If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
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More questions – James Altucher
The more questions you ask:
A) The more you learn
B) The less opportunities you have for sounding stupid. Facts are stupid. Questions are smart, even if they sound stupid.
C) The more vulnerable the other person becomes. Vulnerability for two million years was a way mammals show trust for each other so they can function together in the tribe.
– James Altucher
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Computers – Marshall McLuhan
“Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.”
– Marshall McLuhan
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Lies – V.S. Naipaul
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
– V.S. Naipaul
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Male yardstick – Sophia Loren
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman’s heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”
– Sophia Loren
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Time machines – H.G. Wells
“We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
– H.G. Wells
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A poem – Robert Frost
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
– Robert Frost
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Laughter of the gods – Albert Einstein
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
– Albert Einstein
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Gratitude – John F. Kennedy
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John F. Kennedy
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Success – Mae West
“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.”
– Mae West
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Kiss – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley