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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
~ Bryant H. McGill
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see
~ Henry David Thoreau
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. - William Dunbar
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. - Heinrich Heine
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. - Sophocles
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - R.I.P. Desmond Tutu
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
"All battles are first won or lost, in the mind."
~ Joan of Arc
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. - Confucius
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognize I'd become - quote from "Wearing The Inside Out" by: Pink Floyd
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. - Blaise Pascal
“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. - Stijn Streuvels
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz
The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. - Harry Belafonte
“Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories”
― Munia Khan
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. - Edgar Allan Poe
“All I am surrounded by is fear, and dead men.” – Darth Vader
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. (I sadly dont remember where i heard that quote)
human nature that repeats itself, not history - John Toland
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. - Mandy Hale
"The world of the mind, is a world of endless possibilities."
~Dee
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. - Henry Adams
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. - Salvador Dali
Sydney Harris
“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'”