the countryside came faintly in, and the cool night air, veined with smells’ of earth and salt, fanned my cheeks. The marvelous peace of the sleepbound summer night flooded through me like a tide. Then, just on the edge of daybreak, I heard
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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