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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau
“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
― William Shakespeare
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
*facepalm*
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. - Heinrich Heine
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. - Jules Renard
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. - Black Elk
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. - Simone Weil
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
― Nikki Giovanni
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. - Jack London
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
Maya Angelou
I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. - Alain de Botton
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. - Theodore Roosevel
“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.”
― Peter Straub
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. - Plutarch
One often meets destiny on the road they take to avoid it.
~~Chinese Proverb
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. - Confucius
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn