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

― Mark Twain

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Italian Proverb

Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ~Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. - William Lyon Phelps

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini

The prince who would know all, must ignore much. - Domitius Afer, translated from Latin

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” - André Gide

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

― Nicolas Chamfort

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

― Charles William Eliot

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn

“You can never be overdressed or over educated.”

― Oscar Wilde

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. - Ernest Hemingway

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~Khalil Gibran

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forester

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~William McFee

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

― Winston S. Churchill

Fate laughs at probabilities. ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

― Virginia Woolf

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

― George Washington

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

― Walt Whitman

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

― Voltaire

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

― Mark Twain

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. ~Bill Vaughn

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

― Aristotle

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

― Socrates

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”

― Aristotle

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book. ~Groucho Marx

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. - Author Unknown

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

― Stephen King

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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

― George Bernard Shaw

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~André Maurois

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

― Albert Einstein

The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily Dickinson

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. ~Henry Rollins

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

― Carl Sagan

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ~Paul Eldridge

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

― Albert Einstein

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

― Ray Bradbury

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

― Albert Einstein

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

― Helen Keller

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. ~Jimmy Breslin

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

― Norman Vincent Peale

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ~John Marcellus Huston

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

― Galileo Galilei

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. ~Author Unknown

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

― Leo Tolstoy

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

― Confucius

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

― Henry David Thoreau

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”

― Howard Nemerov

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

― Giacomo Leopardi

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”

― Confucius

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

― Hippocrates

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

― Carl R. Rogers

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

― Plato

I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Terri Guillemets

“To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?”

― Bonaventure

A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one. ~Author Unknown

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”

― Albert Einstein

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

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