The Frictionary #606

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5586. You don't love because; you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. (William Faulkner)

5587. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. (Colin Wilson)

5588. If fire would burn down my house, what would I take with me? I'd like to take the fire...(Jean Cocteau)

5589. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Bertolt Brecht)

5590. Worry is a stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Arthur Somers Roche)

5591. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. (Thomas A. Edison)

5592. The door to change can only be opened from the inside. (Jacques Salomé)

5593. If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. (Leonard Cohen)

5594. Consultant: person who borrows your watch to give you the time, then keeps your watch. (?)

5595. The enemy of learning is knowing. (Steve Ahn)

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