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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. - William Cullen Bryant

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Galileo Galilei

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. - Carl Jung

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. - Art Buchwald

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. - Zane Grey

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. - A. R. Ammons

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

Even if some two-bit God comes, And peddles division, I'll divide him so many times, Even to his apostles, He'll bear no recognition. - Abhijit Naskar

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record. - Kurt Cobain

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. - Herman Melville

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. - Lucretius

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau

Thread said, “your quote,” and my quote is:

“Work with people; not for them; and never against them” - Billythejust

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

hey Billy 😉

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. - Baltasar Gracian

'If you had just a minute to breathe
And they granted you one final wish
Would you ask for something like another chance"

Traffic

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. - Anton Chekhov

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner