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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
--Louisa May Alcott
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
"For to die with honor is far better than to live disgraced."
~ King Arthur
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. - Chuck Palahniuk
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. - Chuck Palahniuk
'Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.'
~ Oscar Wilde
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. - Horace
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin
I just don't want to die without a few scars. - Chuck Palahniuk
“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”
― Colleen Hoover
You're a torch to the temple of depression. - lyrics quoted from 'Behind The Blood' by Katatonia
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. - Arthur Schopenhauer
'Everything changes and nothing lasts forever. '
~ Gautama Buddha
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. - Arthur C. Clarke
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
~ Arthur C. Clarke
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. - Anna Akhmatova
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. - W. H. Auden
"I believe cultural survival is extremely important. I also believe it's important to realize the contributions that we make for each other." - Joanne Shenandoah
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. - Michel de Montaign
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. - Aldous Huxley
I'd rather jump off a bridge than fall in love. It hurts less.
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston