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"Bon Couer ne peut mentir." The heart can see farther than the head.

(Esoteric thinker John Stuart Mill was depressed but he said "a small ray of light broke in upon my gloom" and he decided to become less repressed and analytic and to develop his emotional and aesthetic faculties.)

Lost in translation (how did that get on wiki), it's easier and better this way
Bon coeur ne peut mentir = "good" heart cannot lie, a good-heart(ed person) cannot lie.

"Son, let me tell you the difference between a 'Good Girl' and a 'Nice Girl'. A 'Good Girl' goes on a date, goes home and then goes to bed; while a 'Nice Girl' goes on a date, goes to bed and then goes home. Make sure you marry a 'Good Girl'." -- My Dad, in one of his more sober moments

"Talk is cheap. The only talk of real value is how you talk to yourself."
- S. McLellan

Sally: You just can't imagine what it feels like, Dick. It's like he reached in... and pulled all the bones out of my body... [starts crying]
Dick: My God, what are you doing?
Sally: [wipes her tears] Apparently I'm leaking!
Dick: Well, stop!

3rd Rock From the Sun-Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus

"Football is about nothing, if it's not about something."

Peter Cook, as football manager Alan Latchley.

Seen on a board at a coffee shop:

"Never criticise your wife's choices. You are one of them."

"The mind's the standard of the man." - often quoted by Joseph Merrick

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Scott Hamilton

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

You've 10 days to solve this and then you will be whipped. And for every extra day, there's one extra stoke.

I mustn't run away
-Shinji Ikari Neon Genesis Evangelion

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Within you
Lies the simple silence.
Be quiet and listen...

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame -Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
-Cormac McCarthy