“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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“I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A lot of sons would have been crippled by his demands, but instead the discipline rubbed off on me. I turned it into drive.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”

― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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