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“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”
― Alice Walker

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
― John Ruskin

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.”
― Ruskin Bond, Best Of Ruskin Bond

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.”
― Hafez

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
―حافظ”
― Hafiz

“Come, let's get drunk, even if it is our ruin:
For sometimes under ruins one finds treasure.”
― Hāfez, Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.”
― Kautilya

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
― Kautilya

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“They’re perfect,” she was frequently heard to say. “Any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost