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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."

"Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!"

"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."

"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."

"Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion."

"What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict."

"The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she's right."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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