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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles

Happiness depends upon ourselves.-Aristotle

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. - Albert Einstein

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Suess

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. - Robert Herrick

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” - Edgar Allen Poe

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. - Hunter S. Thompson

"I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul."

Darren Hayes

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. - John Milton

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” – Oscar Wilde

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. - Alexander Pope

"Glorf." - Phineas Flynn

Understanding does not cure evil. - Carl Jung

"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis (The Fall of Atlantis, #1-2)

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. - Dante Alighieri

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By blood a king, in heart a clown. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."

Joan Baez

Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear. - John Lewis

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The next time you think something's too good to be true, remember - so's electricity and sewerage!”
― Odille Rault

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. - Aldous Huxley

“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy

“your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide.”
― Sanober Khan

Humanity is a virus. - Genesis P-Orridge

"We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again."

Amy Lee

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” – Immanuel Kant

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God. - Paramahansa Yogananda

"I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen."

Candice Swanepoel

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. - Honore de Balzac

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — the Dalai Lama

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. - Voltaire

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” - Lao Tzu

We are punished by our sins, not for them. - Elbert Hubbard

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” - William James

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. – Ludwig van Beethoven

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” - Leo Tolstoy

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" - Edgar Allan Poe

“the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
in me."

― Sanober Khan