"I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost."

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Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Gabriela Mistral

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“An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
“I've been number two in films for donkey's years.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread â€“ a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met â€“ and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”

Source : Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins
“Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”, Harpercollins
“If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.”
“The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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