“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branches or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No one wishes to preserve his being for the sake of anything else.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

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