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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience. ↗

— Allan Lokos

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Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. ↗

— Deb Caletti

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An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience. ↗

— Allan Lokos

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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. ↗

— Howard Schultz

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We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. ↗

— Allan Lokos

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Blood is a splash of art, and art is a splash of blood ↗

— Serpentwitch

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A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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