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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. - Henry Kissinger
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is
the inability of the human mind to correlate all
it's contents. - Francis Wayland Thurston
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. - Eliot Ness
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. - Friedrich Nietzsche
As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
Mark Helprin
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. - C. S. Lewis
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. - Frank B. Kellogg
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
-Kahlil Gibran
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
- James M. Barrie
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Who included me among the ranks of the human race? - Joseph Brodsky
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. – Joseph Brodsky
The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers. - Alvin Toffler
“Everything I learned I learned from the
movies.”
― Audrey Hepburn
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. - Washington Irving
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon Bonaparte
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” —Hal Borland
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. - Rudyard Kipling
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
― Oprah Winfrey
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain - Joseph Campbell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. – George Orwell
“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
― Cassandra Clare
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. - Logan Pearsall Smith