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posted by Staff, on 8 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)

Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

Immanuel Kant

posted by Staff, on 8 may 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Happiness, Moods)

Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you, the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

Osho

posted by Staff, on 7 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

posted by Staff, on 7 may 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior, Happiness)

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

posted by Staff, on 6 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

William Somerset Maugham

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