"Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more..."

-- Abigail Van Buren

“Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.”

Source : Frederick the Great, Thomas R. Phillips (2012). “Instructions for His Generals”, p.67, Courier Corporation
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
“The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.”
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.”
“Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes.”
“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

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