"People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ..."

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Source : Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

Source : Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.28, Vintage
“I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.”
“Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.”
“The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.”

Source : William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com
“Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do.”

Source : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.185, Springer Science & Business Media
“We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.”
“Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.”

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