"She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed."

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O. Henry

“The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.”
“Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.”
“Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.”
“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.
“There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to tell how much mental illness among prisoners came in with them and how much is because of prison. I just imagine the real tragedy is there's probably a huge number of people who went in a little bit f - ked up and left completely insane because it's just a horrible treatment.”
“To reach peace, teach peace.”
“Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.”
“Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”

Source : Luo Guanzhong (2016). “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, p.244, XinXii

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