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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. A smiling face is half the meal. Frugality without creativity is deprivation. Gluttony is not a secret vice. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Oppression can only survive through silence. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. The unspoken word never does harm. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Variety is the soul of pleasure. She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. Silence is more musical than any song. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. One picture is worth a thousand words. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. He who laughs, lasts! Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. |
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