"Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change."

-- Timothy Shay Arthur

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“Public opinion is a second conscience.”
“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black
“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.”
“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”
“Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.”
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

Source : "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.
“You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.”
“What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.”

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