Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.