"The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss."

Emotion, Timidity, Fear, Consequence, Life

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Emotion, Enthusiasm, Serenity, Supernatural

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Future, Truth, Power, Happiness

"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Emotion, Patience, Silence, Music, Life

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Love, Truth, Happiness, Life

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Memory, Space, Truth

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Today, Happiness, Power, Truth

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Regret, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Beauty, Wisdom, Today

"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Wisdom, Today, Power

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Emotion, Guilt, Perception, Truth, Responsibility

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"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."

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"Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher."

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"The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is."

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

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"The more you look, the less you see."

"Change only happens when the mind is willing to change."

"No one is without fault. We can only aim to improve."

"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."

"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."

"Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher."

"The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is."