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“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”

Book:One Minute Wisdom

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One Minute Wisdom

This book offers a collection of brief, impactful insights designed to provide readers with quick, actionable wisdom for daily life. more

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Anthony de Mello

Anthony de Mello was an Indian writer, psychologist, and spiritual guide. His works, which blend Eastern philosophy with Western psychology, have been highly appreciated by readers. Born on September 4, 1931, he passed away on June 2, 1987. more

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.”

People World Mind Looks Reality Spiritual Life Is Found Mystery Fit Finished Awakening Ideology Make Sense Perceive Meaning Of Life Awakened Meaning Life

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Dies Practice Dying Harmony Agree Arise Bitterness Attempting

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.”

Ifs Way Love Might Felt Pride Concern Prejudice Affected Mistaken Declaration Darcy Pride And Prejudice Pride Pride And Prejudice Book Mrs Bennet

Author:Jane Austen

“Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.”

Men World Want Made Real Loses Prove Longing Dreamer

Book:Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.”

Knows World Mean Said Hard Gone This World Lessons Hardest Hard Lessons

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.”

Reality Born Perception Transformed

Author:Dan Brown

“Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.”

Moving Conversation Tired

Author:Dave Barry

“I do not cough for my own amusement.”

My Own Amusement

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.”

Regret Lucky Saved Recollection

Book:Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

“As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!”

People Done Pain Evil Pleasure Brother Masters Landlord Guardianship

Book:Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

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