“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“Now Americans deserve to have this same spirit directed toward addressing problems here at home.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“But where is the last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon the Parisian poet took.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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