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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. - Theodore Roosevelt

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on Earth, heaven on Earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.”
narrating from beyond the grave - quote from the film "Gia", Gia Carangi (played by Angelina Jolie)

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. - Nicolaus Copernicus

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. - Thomas Hardy

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. - Francis Bacon

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure your hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. - Emil Cioran

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. - Carl von Clausewitz

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. - Karl Jaspers

“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emil Cioran

“From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.”
― Salman Rushdie

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. - Stanley Kubrick

“May your journey through life be vibrant and full of colorful rainbows.”
― Harley King

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. - Elie Wiesel

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. - Joseph Stalin

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. - John Dryden