“Some things need to be left unsaid.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 104 of 303
“It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.”
“I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.”
“When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.”
“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?”
“Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.”
“Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.”
“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”
“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.”
“When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.”
“I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.”
“In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.”
“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.”
“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”
“Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.”
“Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.”
“The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.”
“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.”
“Learn to speak by listening.”
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”