“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
- spoken by Merlyn the Magician in T. H. White’s, The Once and Future King
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These are some quotes I stole from hyjinx. Thank you, hyjinx!
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~Author Unknown
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
~Charley Reese
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~James Baldwin
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
~Dorothy Dix
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.
~Edith Wharton
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“If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.”
– Lin-Chi, The Taoist Classics, translated by Thomas Cleary