In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
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It is a good practice to always apologize, except when you have done something wrong.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
-Barbra Streisand
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
The jiva or living being is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
-Adi Shankara
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
