#wisdom

Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run. ↗

— Mia Couto

#life

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. ↗

— Inga Muscio

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I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#books #honesty #life #wisdom #writers-world

When you can't get what you want, get what you need ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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When you've got everything and think you've got nothing you've actually got less ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late. ↗

— A.A. Milne

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