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The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain