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Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom. — Laurence Overmire

Sometimes you need to crash a couple of times to learn your mistakes, and then when the smoke clears, sometimes you're better off in the end. — K. Bromberg

Somewhat of goodness, something true
From sun and spirit shining through
All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
Attests the presence everywhere
Of love and providential care. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

Oh, God - the lives people try to lead.
Oh, God - what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. — Bill James

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity. — Warren Buffett

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song. — Gary Talley

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger. — Ben Barnes

The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth.
those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. — Wallace Stegner

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. — Christopher Morley

Your reaction makes me deliciously curious. Will you be kept awake tonight wondering if I knew it was you? Imagining yourself under me?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance — Madison Thorne Grey

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. — Novalis

When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman. — Anita Diamant