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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus
Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries. - Winston Churchill
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn
“Closure is when raw memory blurs to become the folklore of life.”
― Stewart Stafford
The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver
“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. - Marcus Aurelius
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. - Boris Pasternak
“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx
You never know what people will choose to be offended by. - Gilbert Gottfried (RIP)
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
Since when was genius found respectable? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Will there ever be a place that I can hide and heal these open sores? Or do I have to cut them out and eat them as my people adore? - lyrics from "More Than I Could Chew" by: Mastodon
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Winston Churchill
“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!”
― C. JoyBell C.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. - Henry James
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian author)
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. - George Henry Lewes
“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. - Annie Besant
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. - Annie Besant
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson