It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Topic: Happiness, Intelligence
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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