- Poetry arrived to look for me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or river, I don't know how or when. No, there weren't voices, there weren't words, or silence. -Pablo Neruda
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. -George Baker
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. -St. Francis of Assisi
- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. -Saint Teresa of Avila
- The invariable mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. -Alan Watts
- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -Albert Einstein
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Sir Winston Churchill
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. -Sir Winston Churchill
- Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -Mark Twain
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -Mark Twain
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -Mark Twain
- The flowers fall, for all our yearning; weeds grow, regardless of our dislike. -Zen saying
- Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding. -Yehuda Amichai
- To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. -Wendell Berry
- You are the music while the music lasts. -T.S. Eliot
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