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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. – Marquis de Sade
If you want to overcome the world, overcome yourself.-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
― Anais Nin
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. – Voltaire
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
-Gautama Buddha
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. - John Locke
"When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future" -Queen Elizabeth
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.-Plato
“Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.” — Jeaniene Frost
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. - Haruki Murakami
"The brighter a lady shines, the faster she may burn." (Lady Whistledown)
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms. -Pythagoras
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. - Voltaire
You are eternity masquerading as a human being. -Roger Stephens
Society therefore is as ancient as the world. - Voltaire
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
― Jimmy Carter
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." - Princess Diana
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight and see the dawn before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. - Thomas Hobbes
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. - Albert Camus
Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading.-Unknown
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. - Bertrand Russell
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” — Ausonius
“Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.” — J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Carmilla”
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. - Dr Seuss