“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“God’s gifts are often difficult to appreciate; nevertheless they are gifts.”
― Rumi's Daughter
― Rumi's Daughter
“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.”
― Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
― Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”
― Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
― Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
― Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
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