"Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging."

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Source : Ferenc Molnár (1925). “Prisoners: a novel”

Ferenc Molnar

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“At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”
“This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.”
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“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”
“I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity â€“ and personal integrity, at that â€“ is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.”
“James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.”

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