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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. - Maurice Sendak
"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." - Democritus
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
“A dragon's heart burns fiercely, even in the face of evil.”
― S.G. Rogers, Jon Hansen and the Dragon Clan of Yden
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb." ― W. H. Auden
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. - Christo
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — Winnie the Pooh
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. - Robert Kennedy
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
- Voltaire
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. - John F. Kennedy
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. - E. M. Forster
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The finest compliment a man can receive from a woman, is to be told he’s a wonderful father.”
– Ron Baratono
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn. - John Wesley
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf
Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side. - John Kennedy
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor W. Adorno
"Everything negative—pressure, challenge—is all an opportunity for me to rise." — Kobe Bryant