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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Søren Kierkegaard
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. - Theodore Roosevelt
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. - Jean de la Bruyere
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. - Homer
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin
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
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. - George Eliot
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. - Douglas Adams
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. - Lao Tzu
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
~ Sun Tzu
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost! - Thomas Becket
“It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”
~ Batman
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. - Bertolt Brecht
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude”
~ Oprah Winfrey
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. - Mark Twain
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
~ Victor Hugo
"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same."
~ Chinese Proverb
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
“When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
~ Elvis Presley
“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
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
~ Emma Goldman
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
~ Unknown
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein