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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. – Charles d Gaulle

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

Conflict cannot survive without your participation. – Wayne Dyer

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."

Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it.
– Charles Bukowski

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein

“If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.”
― Amit Ray

“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”
― Jim Morrison

Timidity does not inspire bold acts. - Mae Jemison

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg,

We know little of the things for which we pray. – Geoffrey Chaucer

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. - Virgil

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

Erich Fromm

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Michel de Montaigne

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett,

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. - Linus Pauling

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucius

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.
Christopher Lee

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Harry S. Truman

“They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much. – Joan Collins

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. - Howard Nemerov

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. - Horace Walpole

“Death aims only once, but never misses.” – Edward Counsel

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred. - William Godwin

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”
― Nicole Sobon,

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
James Stewart

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. - Bayard Rustin

“We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us”
― jim morrison

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg,