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Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever ...more

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the lovi...more

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A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contra...more

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If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, ...more

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If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make ...more

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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Wh...more

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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we l...more

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Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom thro...more

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Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

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If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.