#pi

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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My therapies went on forever. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#therapies #went

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#attached #books #certain #music #pieces

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#happy #masterpieces #too #write #you

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #dependence #enjoy #future #present

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#essence #fire #spiritual

Where fear is, happiness is not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#happiness #where

You learn to know a pilot in a storm. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#learn #pilot #storm #you

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#art #aspire #endure #first #learned