"Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism."

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Source : Ayelet Waldman (2006). “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”, Doubleday Books

Ayelet Waldman

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“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2018). “Debt of Bones”, p.96, Tor Fantasy
“I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.”
“Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.”
“The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,â€” Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1906). “Poems”
“Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”
“My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.
“Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.”

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