The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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