"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

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Source : Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

Samuel Butler

#Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Fear Quotes

“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.”
“When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.953, Random House
“We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.”
“Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.”
“But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.”
“Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.”
“What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.”

Source : Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.262, Delta

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