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think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. - Black Elk

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
-Toni Morrison

Round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, and haunt the places where their honour died. — Alexander Pope

People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves.-Matt Kahn

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication – Abraham Maslow

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” - Maori proverb

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. – Simon Weil

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
― John Adams

When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems. - Liam Payne

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. – Chuck Palahniuk

*points up* True that

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

*Chuck always be on point*

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do. - Alexei Navalny

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. - Menachem Begin

"Rain symbolizes darkness but also represents an essential part of rebirth." — Sabrina Claudio

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
–Confucius

You're on earth. There's no cure for that. - Samuel Beckett

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

Peter S. Beagle

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. - Franz Liszt

“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” – Edgar Allan Poe

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. – Friedrich Schiller

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. – Honor de Balzac

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. – Albert Einstein

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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

“Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can.” – Unknown

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. - Albert Camus

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
-Annie Besant

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne Frank

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart