"The Eighth of September

This day, Today, was a brimming glass.
This day, Today, was an immense wave.
This day was all the Earth.

This day, the storm-driven ocean
lifted us up in a kiss
so exalted we trembled
at the lightning flash
and bound as one, fell,
and drowned, without being unbound.

This day our bodies grew
stretched out to Earth's limits,
orbited there, melded there
to one globe of wax, or a meteor's flame.

A strange door opened, between us,
and someone, with no face as yet,
waited for us there."

Neruda, Pablo on wonder
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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Carter, Angela on books - reading
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"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one."

Chambers, Oswald on books - reading
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

Chambers, Oswald on books - reading   

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading   

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them."

Clarendon on books - reading   

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."

Coolio on books - reading
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"The heart that truly loves never forgets."

Proverb on art
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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on love
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Johnson, Samuel on abuse
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"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on life   

"Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire."

Bhagavad Gita on selfishness
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. on anger
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep."

Shakespeare, William on pride   

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

Johnson, Samuel on belief
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"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on life
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"An angry father is most cruel toward himself."

Syrus, Publilius on fathers
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"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep."

Daumal, Rene on humankind   

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis on silence
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"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."

Kempis, Thomas on influence
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"We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin."

Watts, Alan W. on meditation   

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

Watts, Alan W. on change   

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

Watts, Alan W. on truth   

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

Hemingway, Ernest on depression
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"If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work."

Hemingway, Ernest on contentment   

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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