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

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to...”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“You can't just make me different and then leave”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins—of happiness and unhappiness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is essential as a matter of simple survival for us to understand science. In addition, science is a delight; evolution has arranged that we take pleasure in understanding—those who understand are more likely to survive.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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