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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. - Arthur Schopenhauer

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. -Emma Goldman

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. -Virginia Satir

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. -Richard Bach

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. - Muhammad Iqbal

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

This book (All Quiet on the Western Front) is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. -Erich Maria Remarque

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. - James Stephens

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. -Francoise Sagan

“Humor is reason gone mad.”
― Groucho Marx

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Vladimir Lenin

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous. -Blaise Pascal

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. - Steven Wright

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. - William James

H. sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -Joyce Carol Oates

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. - Charles Bukowski

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. - Cesare Pavese

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. -Euripides

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

You will reap what you sow

Man is the measure of all things" - Protagoras

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows. - Mason Cooley

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous. -Blaise Pascalk

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

He who seeks finds. -Jesus

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. - Herbert Hoover

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. -William Styron

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet