"Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul."

— James A. Michener

Literature1907–1997

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature1803–1882

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"Here’s why I predict emotional intelligence will be paramount for your son’s future: the more sophisticated artificial intelligence becomes, the more we will yearn for humans to fill the emotional int…"

— Warren Farrell

Science1943

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"In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone ma…"

— Emil Cioran

Philosophy1911–1995

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