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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. – Louis L’Amour

"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow.” — Diane Duane

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. – John Steinbeck

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

From all things one and from one all things. – Heraclitus

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. – David Mamet

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.
― Donna Tartt

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
― Wilfred Owen

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. - Victor Hugo

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
― Maya Angelou

“If we can’t live in peace, then let’s die in peace.” – Jim Jones

“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

This circus is falling down on its knees
The big top is crumbling down
It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Where you should be, no one's around - lyrics excerpt 'Raining In Baltimore' (Counting Crows)

It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.” ― Josh Malerman, "Bird Box"

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.
Sam Elliott

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide,.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide. - Ernest Hemingway

“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. – Franz Kafka

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake? - Justin Alcala

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
― Lord Byron

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know. - Daniel Kahneman

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
Guillaume Musso

I disagree that we should limit our numbers of books

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. – J.B. Priestley

Once you learn to read you will be forever free.
― Fredrick Douglas

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. - Rudyard Kipling

Where's your will to be weird - Jim Morrison

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
-Carl Sagan

“In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Stephen King

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov