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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
- Thomas Merton
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.
- Carl Sagan
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
- David Levithan
The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.
- Swami Sivananda
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
- Terri Guillemets
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
- Thomas Carlyle
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