"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

-- Carl Jung

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“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.”
“Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.”
“Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.”
“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”
“Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.”
“When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.”
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

Source : Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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