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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
“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