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I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature. - Marvin Minsky

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear. - John Lewis

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today." - Mother Teresa

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

" All our dreams can come true , if we have courage to pursue them" Walt Disney

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C.S. Lewis

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

Michael Jackson

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times, hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” ― Sylvia Plath

No theory of truth can tell us more about the world than our ordinary speaking does. – Jaakko Hintikka

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream,"

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

Lead me, follow me or get out of my way. - George S. Patton

“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker, and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them anymore. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

"Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have f****ed with? That's me," - Clint Eastwood

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. - Erwin Schrodinger

What is a master but a master student - Neil Pert

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The scars you carry are proof you survived the dark.”-Unknown

Time to make the doughnuts. - Dunkin Doughnuts employee

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it. - Grimm

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.” - Peter Brooks

"Get busy living, or get busy dying," from "Shawshank Redemption" - Morgan Freeman

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. - Alexis de Tocqueville

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” — Shannon L. Alder

"Here's Johnny" - The Shining - Jack Nicholson