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Us Quotes by Mason Cooley
- Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
- We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
- Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.
- Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
- Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
- We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
- Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
- Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
- If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
- Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
- Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
- Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
- True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
- Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
- For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then the one that,…
- Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
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