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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. - Theodor W. Adorno

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

The life so short, the craft so long to learn. - Hippocrates

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Winston Churchill

"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. - Václav Havel

"We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves." ~Shirely Chisholm

Everybody has a breaking point. - Andrew Shaffer

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." - John Lennon

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. - Philip Roth

"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. - Henri Matisse

"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure" - Marquis de Sade

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. - Horace

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped" - Calvin Coolidge

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― George K. Simon Jr., In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." -Maya Angelou

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. - Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the end of a journey and the beginning of an adventure. Markus666

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. - Aldous Huxley

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson

It is always your next move. – Napoleon Hill

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (from his book 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical & Practical Aphorisms')

"Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."
Sean O'Casey

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln

Anger cannot be dishonest. – Marcus Aurelius

“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. - Plutarch

"I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond."
Starley Ard, Dreaming is for lovers

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking; a workman to execute with perseverance and labour: —but besides this, there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.”

― Mary Shellley, Frankenstein

"I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both."
Sarah Kay