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- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edward Chapin
- When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
- Meg Cabot, (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002
- By the work one knows the workmen.
- Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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