"What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already."

— Libba Bray

Literature1964

#books

"Epictetus and Antoninus have had readers ever since they were first printed. The little book of Antoninus has been the companion of some great men."

— George Long (scholar)

Literature1800–1879

#books

"Pennsylvania, if you don't win this now, not only will you never win again — you don't deserve to win again."

— Steve Bannon

Business1953

#success

"… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive."

— Eckhart Tolle

Literature1948

#friendship