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Life`s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
I`d like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it`s like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
Nearly all scientific research leads nowhere - or, if it does lead somewhere, not in the direction it started off.
When dealt one of life’s terrible blows - the death of a parent, the end of a relationship, the positive test result, the guilty verdict, the final step off the tall building - there comes a moment of light-headedness, almost of euphoria, as the string which tethers us to our hopes is cut and we bounce off in another direction, briefly powered by the momentum of release.
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, the one thing powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
When you`re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you`ve just wandered a few feet off the path, that you`ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you dont even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Young people don`t always do what they`re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.