“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I have had my share of vanity; for as a young man I was admired by women; and as a statue I am praised by art critics.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“what I do I do because I like to do.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Men should be what they seem.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

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