“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”
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“Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.”
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“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
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“There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.”
― Surfacing
― Surfacing
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