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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
-Ernest Hemingway

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.
Tim Curry

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable
~ C. G. Jung

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. – Thales

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

Jared Leto

“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini,

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks. - Akira Toriyama

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
― Jodi Picoult

We rise in glory as we sink in pride. - Andrew Young

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie,

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. – Jean Giraudoux

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him. - John Burroughs

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

Say something clever and the audience applauds. - anonymous

Sapere aude. Dare to think. -Immanuel Kant

We lost because we told ourselves we lost. – Leo Tolstoy

‘St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time — a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.’ – Adrienne Cook

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. - Dante Alighieri

Well done is better than well said.~Benjamin Franklin

Avarice is a deadly sin. - Saint Patrick

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
― Madame De Stael

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. - J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

It is only love that fuels the spirit of great deeds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akit

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
Johnny Cash

“The more man mediates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” -Confucius

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.
Lee Majors

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. - William Shatner

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
-Charles Bukowski