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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Søren Kierkegaard

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
- Oscar Wilde

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. - Naked Lunch(film)

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

Pleasure and discipline need to stay close friends. ~Terri Guillemets

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~Sydney J. Harris

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. - Gordon R. Dickson

Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. ~Richard Shelton

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. - William Shakespeare

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ~e.e. cummings

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. ~Terri Guillemets

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... -
Michelle Obama

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable. - Sergio Mattarella

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. - Ann Landers

God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. ~Elizabeth Bibesco

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~Mother Teresa

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Khalil Gibran

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -
Herbert Hoover

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.....Wayne Dyer

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. - Stewart Udall

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. - Sun Tzu

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust

Her cheeks burned; a strange new life was in all her veins. ~Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Khalil Gibran

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne

A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle

My life is perfect, even when it is not.
— Ellen Degeneres

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. - Anton Szandor LaVey

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. - Jane Haddam

It might take a year, it might take a day, but what’s meant to be will always find it’s way.
Unknown

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. -
Joshua Lederberg

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen

Not all those who wander are lost - JRR Tolkien

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

Business is a combination of war and sport. ~André Maurois

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ~John Egan

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.... ~Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. - Arthur Rimbaud

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
― Lauren Conrad

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile ~ Albert Einstein

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. - St. Jerome

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to find ~Forest Gump

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William Ewart Gladstone

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do ~Walter Bagehot

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up ~Rocky Balboa

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

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