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- Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
- When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly…
- We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who…
- The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only…
- We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue…
- I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important…
- But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
- We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing…
- I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong,…
- Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the…
- Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything…
- I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are…
- You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle