Anita Shreve in "Light in Snow" wrote:

People are predictable...We go back to the places that once gave us a jolt.

James Rogers listed in "Dictionary of Cliches"

Eloquent Silence. Conveying more by saying nothing than by speaking.

In same book, he quoted Martin Tupper who wrote "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Michael Jones, well known pianist, in his book "Creating an Imaginative Life", wrote:

Success offers us excitement, but failures give us weight, the weight that cracks open the heart to a quality of earthly love that success can never find...

life's pearls are sometimes found in unlikely places.

more about him here

Voltaire in "Candide" wrote:

..there were much greater misfortunes than that of which he complained...

...A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life...

...In the different countries which it has been my lot to traverse,...I have taken notice of a vast number of people who held their own existence in abhorrence,...

...I advise you to divert yourself, and prevail upon each passenger to tell his story; and if there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a time, that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of mortals, I give you to leave to throw me headforemost into the sea...




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Kate Chopin in a short story entitled " Desiree's Baby" wrote:

"That was the way all the Aubignys fell in love, as if struck by a pistol...
The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles."

more about Kate Chopin here.

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Frank Abagnale in "Stealing Your Life" wrote:

...haste is the enemy of accuracy.




Still from Frank Abagnale in same book:

Not all justified complaints have a happy resolution.

Mark J Penn in " Microtrends" wrote:

"We live in a world with a deluge of choices."
click on his name to go to his site.





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