"Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does."

-- Epictetus

#Wish Quotes #Doe Quotes #Should Quotes

“When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.”
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.210, Dell
“Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.”
“Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.”
“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”
“I wouldn't agree with people saying Lil Wayne is wack, you know what I mean? Because I've heard Lil Wayne records many times and he say a lot of clever things.”
“What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.”
“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.”

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