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I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke - Søren Kierkegaard
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.,"-Marcus Aurelius
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. - Søren Kierkegaard
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
~ Gautama Buddha
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. - Edgar Allan Poe
“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
Anne Rice
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Søren Kierkegaard
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
~ Gautama Buddha
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. - Larry Ellison
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~ Gautama Buddha
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. - Winston Churchill
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. - Heraclitus
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T. S. Eliot
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. - Lysander Spooner
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”
~ Albert Einstein
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. - Rollo May
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. - Jean Racine
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. - Walt Whitman
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
~ Gautama Buddha
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston S. Churchill
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? - Joseph Stalin
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
~ Nikola Tesla
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard
“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”
~ Gautama Buddha
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - Henry Miller
"Even the little quail can chirp freely in her nest."
~ Gautama Buddha