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Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. - John C. Calhoun
“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”
― Alice Cooper
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. - Christian Nestell Bovee
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Helen Keller
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. - e. e. cummings
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Khalil Gibran
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T. S. Eliot
"Never underestimate the allure of Darkness, for even the purest of hearts are drawn to it."
~ Niklaus Mikaelson (The Vampire Diaries)
@ Deedrah~~ So damn true.
"I would rather hate you for everything you are than ever love you for something you're not;
And I would rather be hated for everything I am than loved for anything I'm not."
~~ Five Finger Death Punch (Ivan Moody)
"The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen."
Rumi
"It is only when you refuse to give in with all your heart that you begin to transcend your humanity."
~ Alucard (Hellsing)
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
Maya Angelou
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve,”
~ Napoleon Hill
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become,”
~ Buddha
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. - Plato
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
~ Nikola Tesla
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. - Anatole France
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. - Euripides
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. - John Donne
"Freedom, is the potential to challenge yourself far beyond the constraints of traditional rule."
~ Sammael (Gabriel)
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. - Plato
"Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things."
Kenneth Branagh
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
~ Epicurus
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. - Friedrich Schiller
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put water in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend."
~ Bruce Lee
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. - Neil Gaiman
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long."
~ Tyrell (Blade Runner)