Insightful quotations

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◆ You only lose what you cling to.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

- George R.R. Martin98

◆ People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.

- Gustave Geyer98

◆ Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here's a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn't mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. ?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ ?The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.

- Alfred A. Yuson98

◆ I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

- Paul erik Van Schaick98

◆ There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

- Anthony Powell98

◆ She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

- Banana Yoshimoto98

◆ Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues.

- Anthony Trollope98

◆ This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.

- Steven Johnson98

◆ I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.

- Lindsay Buroker98

◆ The more a man judges, the less he loves

- Honoré de Balzac98

◆ An empty man is full of himself.

- Edward Abbey98

◆ What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

- Leo Tolstoy98

◆ Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.

- Anthony Powell98