"Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health."

-- Samuel Richardson

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“Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.”
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.”
“I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry... As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see...the Lord nailed to the cross.”
“Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument”
“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”
“The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.”

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