SundayJan 11, 2026
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
Ye can call it influenza if ye like, said Mrs. Machin. There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.
Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality.
The moment youre born youre done for.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
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