“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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