a sadist can never get rid of his problems untill he learns to be happy -from things fall apart

we often feel being haunted but unknown to us, we are only haunted by our own fear! from-the x-mas eve (film)

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. -Ulysses S. Grant

"Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire / It is difficult to master ones passions and impossible to satisfy them." -De La Sabliére.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before. - The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow. -Thwonk by Joan Bauer

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em. - A Light In The Attic, by Shel Silverstein

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - The Twits, by Roald Dahl

"Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you." “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing. - Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling

 "I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." - Jack Kerouac, On The Road

Discipline is hard, harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at. - The Checklist Manifesto, by Dr. Atul Gawande

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all. - Code Complete, Second Edition, by Steve McConnell

[Quoting Augustine] "I carried inside me a cut and bleeding soul, and how to get rid of it I just didn't know. I sought every pleasure - the countryside, sports, fooling around, the peace of a garden, friends, and good company, sex, reading. My soul floundered in the void - and come back upon me. For where could my heart flee from my heart? Where could I escape from myself?" - How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill

So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don’t know what work they are accomplishing within you? - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. - Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

“ Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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In all things you do, always follow your heart. But take your brain with you. Albert Einstein

"I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.... " Antoine de Saint-Exupry, The Little Prince