"What are stories for if we don't learn from them?"

“There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.”

“I don't want to be either partial or impartial.”

“...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.”

Source : Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”

“When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.”

Source : Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

“Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.”

Source : Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.111, Penguin

“Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'”

Source : Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014