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“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.”
― Terence Conran, Essential Storage: The Back to Basics Guide to Home Design, Decoration & Furnishing

“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.

T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out the mattress, but he missed them.'

'What are you going to do? Share them?'

'We aren't thieves,' T. said. 'Nobody's going to steal anything from this house. I kept these for you and me - a celebration.' He knelt down on the floor and counted them out - there were seventy in all. 'We'll burn them,' he said, 'one by one,' and taking it in turns they held a note upwards and lit the top corner, so that the flame burnt slowly towards their fingers. The grey ash floated above them and fell on their heads like age. 'I'd like to see Old Misery's face when we are through,' T. said.

'You hate him a lot?' Blackie asked.

'Of course I don't hate him,' T. said. 'There'd be no fun if I hated him.' The last burning note illuminated his brooding face. 'All this hate and love,' he said, 'it's soft, it's hooey. There's only things, Blackie,' and he looked round the room crowded with the unfamiliar shadows of half things, broken things, former things. 'I'll race you home, Blackie,' he said. ("The Destructors")”
― Graham Greene, Shock!

“Girls say all sort of silly things. You watch after yourself, now. You leave me alone in this, and I'll wring your neck.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“I arrive at my desk as a bulwark against life. I have a tender spot -- tender to the point of tears -- for my ledgers in which I keep other people's accounts, for the old inkstand I use, for the hunched back of Sérgio, who draws up invoices a little beyond where I sit. I love all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love, and perhaps also because nothing is worth a human soul's love, and so it's all the same -- should we feel the urge to give it -- whether the recipient be the diminutive form of my inkstand or the vast indifference of the stars.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Things will go wrong, that's a human reality. Work diligently, factor in wisdom, challenge beliefs that fail historic testing, & listen deeply to understand anything; act forward on that exploration & discover where things can go right on a solidified quantum level.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“They keep changing things as the internet matures.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes, the simplest things are very difficult for people to grasp.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Society In Opposition To Everything

“People's problems is with "What to do" not "How to do". You can't use the word "How" without "What".”
― AYMEN Al-Jabarti

“The reason behind Pain is the gap between your reality and expectations.”
― AYMEN Al-Jabarti

“Excess is pain, neglect is pain, balance is comfort.”
― AYMEN Al-Jabarti

“The most stressful cause, is dealing with jerks.”
― AYMEN Al-Jabarti

“Most Americans have no idea how much better things are in the European workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“If the only place you look for research is the internet, you will only have a partial view of things.”
― Steven Magee

“The things that make you doubt are the things you are most interested in.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Things are dynamic and living, while our concepts of them are static and poor.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

“To see things in their interdependent relational mature is to perceive their nature of non-identity. Put another way, it is to recognize their existence, even when they are not present.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

“One of the joys of living together is things become cheaper!”
― Steven Magee

“Our relationships with things and people define us. You need to watch a person in his relationships to determine what kind of a person he is.”
― KRISHNA MURTHY ANNIGERI VASUDEVA RAO, FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“The handmade object does not charm us simply because of its usefulness.
It lives in complicity with our senses, and that is why it is so hard to get rid of it-it is like throwing a friend out of the house.”
― Octavio Paz Solórzano, Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature

“The best thing in life is being the best.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Sit, close your eyes, let yourself be lulled by this river that speaks of ancient and pure things.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow

“It's always with exaggerated emotion that I leave something behind, whatever it may be. The miserable rented room where I lived for a few months, the dinner table at the provincial hotel where I stayed for six days, even the sad waiting room at the station where I spent two hours waiting for a train--yes, their loss grieves me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Never try to prove yourself to someone �� because you won’t get any forgiveness from them for their saying hurtful things.��
“কখন�� কারো কাছে নিজেকে প্রমাণ করার চেষ্টা করবে�� না �� কারণ আপনি তাদে�� ক্ষতিক�� কথ�� বলার জন্য তাদে�� কা�� থেকে কো�� ক্ষম�� পাবে�� না��”
― Mozammel Khan

“...que todo lo visible es triste lloro.”
― Fray Luis de León, Antología poética

“We hid behind our wounds and threw blame around the moment things got tough.”
― Catharina Maura, The Broken Vows

“Some Things you only understand Decades later.”
― Sino Melo

“I don't like Money, but I like the Things you can buy with it.”
― Sino Melo

“I love to try Things that seem impossible, but there is still a Spark of Hope for them.”
― Sino Melo

“The things that we love tell us what we are”
― Thomas Aquinas