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Quote by Mason Cooley

“Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.”

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Mason Cooley was an enigmatic writer and critic whose works spanned a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, literature, and everyday life. Known for his concise, profound, and humorous style, he was greatly admired by readers. more

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.”

Knows Giving Believe Humans Moments Values Given Compassion Knowing Our Lives Abundance Betray Priceless Truest

Author:Steven Erikson

“The heart of wisdom is tolerance.”

Heart Tolerance

Book:Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)

Source: Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)

“Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”

Sometimes Order

Book:The Temporal Void

Source: The Temporal Void

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”

Lessons

Author:Steven Erikson

“Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!”

Knows Silence Air Mystery Illusion Strategy Assuming Confusion Delusion Host I Have Learned Elusive Suggesting Deluded

Author:Steven Erikson

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.”

Want Feels Ends Air Ready Terrible Destination

Author:Kaui Hart Hemmings

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”

House Strong My Own Boxes Cheer Contemplating Coins

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.”

Thinking Kind Important Hard Whole Feelings Happens Jobs Young Walks Whole Life Collapse

Author:Walt Disney

“My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus?”

Stuff Brain Spread Brown Flaws Sandwiches Hubris Seaweed Fatal Flaws Hummus

Author:Rick Riordan

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