He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Lao Tzu

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Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.

Charlotte Brontë

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La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.

Carmen Martín Gaite

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.

Kahlil Gibran

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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Clarence Darrow

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May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

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Never, never, never give in!

Winston S. Churchill

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

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