“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― The Dead of Night
― The Dead of Night
“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself."
"Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.”
― Mostly Harmless
"Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.”
― Mostly Harmless
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