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We are rarely proud when we are alone. – Voltaire

Just because something is basic or simple
does not mean that it isn't immensely powerful.
- Mat Auryn

God's only excuse is that he does not exist. – Stenhal

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. - Nicolas Chamfort

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! - Robert Burns

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

“He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”
― Laini Taylor

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.
-Anthon St. Maarten

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
-Ayn Rand

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. - e. e. cummings

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

“Gluttony's grasp holds tight, as excess consumes their sight. In secret, they devour with haste, their hunger never sated, their health forever waisted.”
― Shaila Touchton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. - Thomas Merton

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.-Melody Carstairs

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

E. Stanley Jones

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. - Robert M. Pirsig

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams