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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. - Sun Tzu

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. - Stephen Leacock

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
― Jason Soroski

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

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. - John Millington Synge

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. - James Stephens

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
― Khalil Gibran

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. - Abraham Maslow

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. - Cesare Pavese

Be correct with everyone, sociable with many, close to the elect, freind to the few. - Al Capone

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. - Horace

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - Charles Spurgeon

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
― Rob Liano

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. - Swami Vivekananda

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

War is the continuation of politics by other means. - Carl von Clausewitz

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau