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But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if it were to? We wouldn’t welcome the education. For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We
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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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