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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. - Socrates
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. - Bertolt Brecht
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. - Henry Ward Beecher
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. - Antoni Gaudi
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill
Lord give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
"It is only in the darkest of times when we find who we really are"
((I can't remember who I first heard say it, let alone, where it came from...))
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. - Sun Tzu
spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. - Hayao Miyazaki
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. -Semisonic (I think)
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."— President Harry S. Truman
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. -Steve Jobs
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski
Unfortunately, "Common Sense Is Not So Common"
~Voltaire (supposedly, anyway)
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. -Oprah Winfrey