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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Life is a box of surprises and that's why it often seems empty.
-Rafsan Al Musawver

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. - Michael Stipe

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”
― William Faulkner

The most important things in life aren't things. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love. —Richard Gere

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James A. Baldwin

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. - Alan Watts

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. —Lucille Ball

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. – Mason Cooley

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. – Robert Crumb

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
-Mark Twain

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
― Roy T. Bennett

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.
-Steve Goodier

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. - B. R. Ambedkar

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.'” —George Clooney

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
― Bob Marley

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.
Ana Monnar

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. - Jack London

What's meant to be will always find a way
― Trisha Yearwood

“It's never the end of the world when things go wrong.
Just keep faith in yourself, keep going and stay strong.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
-Cynthia Occelli

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live in. — Jim Rohn

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. -Patrick Rothfuss

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I will gently violate your mind, before I tuck you in.” Lizzy Hale

“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hiding in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl

He remade you in his image, but we remade you in ours. – quote from the film “Nefarious” (I highly recommend it, it's on Amazon)

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― John F. Kennedy

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” -Melinda Gates

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
-Albert Einstein

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

"When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind."
Chester Bennington

You know when I was a kid I went to the zoo class trip and when I came home I decided I wanted to be a giraffe when I grew up. I was never in charge Randy. – quote from the film “The Passenger” (another one I highly recommend on Amazon)

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler

We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream,
we are what gives life Magick- Raven Grimassi