Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 13
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”
“Deal with him as a truant, if you will, but claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”
“Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.”
“To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.”
“Materials are indifferent, but the use which we make of them is not a matter of indifference.”
“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”
“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”
“Do you suppose that you can do the things you do now, and yet be a philosopher?”
“Little is needed to ruin and upset everything, only a slight aberration from reason.”
“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”
“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry.”