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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”
Charlie Munger
“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
Jeanette Winterson
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Mark Twain
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
Nag R
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
Jacob Bronowski
“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”
Martha Graham
“Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the soul.”
Bruce Lee
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“One of life's greatest pleasures is accomplishing what others say you cannot.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard