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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mason Cooley
Happiness, Attitude, Book

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Mason Cooley
Faces, Mask, Seems

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

Mason Cooley
Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Mason Cooley
Interesting, Why Not, Interesting Life

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Mason Cooley
Money

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Mason Cooley
Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Mason Cooley
Literature, Baffled, Insult

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Mason Cooley
Complaining, Complaints, Pastime

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

Mason Cooley
Change

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Mason Cooley
Phrases, Poor, Persons

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Mason Cooley
Faith, Moving, Hiking

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

Mason Cooley
Book, People, Conscious

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Mason Cooley
Happiness, Romance, Companionship

A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

Mason Cooley
Sheep, Gone

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

Mason Cooley
Love, Hate, Facts

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

Mason Cooley
Farewell, Loss

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Mason Cooley
Today, Tomorrow, Significance

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Mason Cooley
Forgiveness, Forgive And Move On, What Is Forgiveness

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Mason Cooley
Writing, Solitude, Reader

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Mason Cooley
Depression, Courage, Bipolar
"City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Mason Cooley
Mistake, Literature, Originality

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Mason Cooley
Book, Lessons, Teach

A blocked path also offers guidance.

Mason Cooley
Path, Guidance, Blocked

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Mason Cooley
Being Alone, Blame, Living Alone

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Mason Cooley
Philosophical, Upset, Doe

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