A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.
Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.
For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France. ' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.