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Obstacles are detours in the right direction. - Gabby Bernstein

“Loving you feels like my commitment to eternity a long time ago”
― Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. - Franklin P. Jones

"Time and time again, we reconnect.
It's like the universe nudges us to give it one more chance."

Nikki rowe

Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. – Quote from “Fight Club”

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
― James Waterman Wise

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. - Edith Stein

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. - Albert J. Nock

“Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time;
A time to plant, a time to harvest.
A time to cry, a time to laugh.
A time to be sad, a time to be happy.
A time to be born, a time to die.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. - Diane Keaton (RIP)

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

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life. - Russell M. Nelson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. - Mahatma Gandhi

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy

“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
― Stephen Hawking

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. - e. e. cummings

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. - Black Elk

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet. - Ace Frehley (RIP)

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho,

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. - George Henry Lewes

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand. - Ace Frehley (RIP)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christian Nestell Bovee

“All things are symbols: the external shows of nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Harvest Moon

Time, the devourer of all things. - Ovid

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha

“I've always loved the desert. You sit down on a sand dune. You see nothing. You hear nothing. And yet something shines, something sings in that silence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. - John le Carre

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
― Neil Gaiman

Ha! Gaiman nailed it - cats are the ultimate free spirits. Here's mine:

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. - Lucy Larcom

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. - Marcus Aurelius

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. - Michael Crichton

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar

I think, therefore I lurk. Cogito ergo lurk—pondering existence one shadow at a time.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. - Otto von Bismarck

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

“Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.”
― G.G. Collins, Reluctant Medium

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. – Mark Twain

"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on." - James Patterson

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. - Leon Trotsky

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

If we don't know life, how can we know death? - Confucius

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten”
― Lilo and stitch

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
― Fidel Castro

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. - Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. - Wilson Mizner

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

Either move or be moved.- Ezra Pound

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

Fitting for All Saints' Day - a day to remember those who lived with purpose and conviction.

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

Power does not change you, it unmasks you. – John Kennedy

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. - John Updike

“That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.”
― Bill Maher

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality. - Bernard Williams

“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
― Charlie Bynar

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. - Charles Kettering

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

Layer by layer art strips life bare. - Robert Musil

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” —Phyllis Diller

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. - Albert Camus

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Count people in the end. At the beginning everyone seems good. – anonymous

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
― Carl Reiner

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. - Robert A. Heinlein

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.-----Willie Nelson

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The dose makes the poison. - Paracelsus

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. -Louis D. Brandeis

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

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. - Thomas Moore

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

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Mary Oliver