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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. – Nikola Tesla

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson

“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”
― John Lennon

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. – Walter Benjamin

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” — Plato

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. - Walter Benjamin

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave. – Gerald R. Ford

Let your light shine bright through the storms of life.

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future," says John F. Kennedy.

“Chance favors the connected mind.”
― Steven Johnson

Trust is not something that’s given; it’s something you have to earn. - Tom Perez

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

T. S. Eliot

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in - George McGovern

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." – Alan Alda

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances. - Petrarch

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." - Marcus Tullius Cicero.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. - Ernest Hemingway

“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
― Francis Schaeffer

"If automation keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live." — Albert Einstein

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world. - Ozzy Osbourne (RIP)

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
― Veronica Roth

“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.”
― Shel Silverstein

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat, but that’s OK — the bat had to get Ozzy shots. - guess who

“The day we stop learning is the day we die.”
― Michael Scott, The Warlock

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. – Stephen Vincent Benet

“The sun shines brightest on Fridays because it knows that the weekend is here.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it. - Tom Stoppard

When life brings you lemons, make lemon drops.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. - Bob Dylan

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. - George Jean Nathan

“In her eyes, I saw a mirror of my soul—flawed, scarred, but desperately yearning for redemption.” ― Neva Altaj, Sweet Prison

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. - Hilaire Belloc

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. - Jackie Kennedy

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.” — Chuck Palahniuk

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”
― Austin Kleon