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“Irritability is anger that lacks self-knowledge.”
― The School of Life (PUK Rights), The School of Life: An Emotional Education

“End the habit of despising things that are not within your power, and apply your aversion to things that are within your power.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

“What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are influenced by preconceptions. 'Knowing' has been added to 'seeing'.”
― Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

“Too many writers write for the wrong reasons.
They want to get famous or they want to get rich or they want to get laid by the girls with bluebells in their hair...
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing, but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it. When it's stuffed in your ears, nostrils, under your finger nails.
It's when there's no hope but that.”
― Charles Bukowski