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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Socrates

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

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington

"It has been said that I have two alternatives. Either go to jail or go to the army. But I would like to say that there is another alternative... that alternative is justice.".

Muhammad Ali

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
― susan polis schutz

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

"Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."

Unknown

Revolt is the right of the people - John Locke

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

"Live fish always swim against the current. Only dead fish always goes with the flow."

Unknown

“Don’t think about the start of the race, think about the ending.” — Usain Bolt

“You say freak, I say unique.”
― Christian Baloga

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. - Karl Marx

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. - Simone de Beauvoir

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. - Jim Morrison

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. - Barack Obama

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary. - Albert Einstein

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. ― Maya Angelou

“My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.”
― Anna Whateley

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe. - Heraclitus

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. - Henry Rollins

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
― Louisa May Alcott

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist. - Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Genius)

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

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. – Immanuel Kant

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
― Barack Obama

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. - Rene Descartes

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

A picture is a poem without words. - Horace

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

Man is condemned to be free. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

James Stewart

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us-Traci Lords

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

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

"A brother is someone who will constantly fill your soul with love, sunshine, and joy each day of your life." – Anonymous

All that is known is transformed by the knower. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no greater miracle than realizing the lantern you seek has always been in your hands”
― Faisal Hussain

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. - David Hume

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." — Nicholas Sparks

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. - Montesquieu

"Follow your heart, trust your instincts, and above all else, have fun!" — Laurie E. Smith

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche

War is not healthy for children and other living things - Arlene Lorenzo

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. - Jean-Paul Sartre

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

The right question is usually more important than the right answer. - Plato

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Nelson Mandela

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
― Nicholas Sparks

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! - J.R.R. Tolkien

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Alan Alda

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell

“Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. - Friedrich Engels

“Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes”
― Rue

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. - Hypatia

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
― Joseph Campbell

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -
Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

To exist is to have a story to tell. – Gabriel Marcel

Look down at me and you will see a fool. Look up at me and you will see your god. Look straight at me and you will see yourself. - Charles Manson

The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind. — Wim Hof

Eat the Rich - Aerosmith

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Existence precedes essence. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Time to make the doughnuts. - Fred the baker for Dunkin Doughuts

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. - Patrick Ness (from his novel 'A Monster Calls')

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat." ― Jacques Yves Cousteau.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

Everything will probably never be okay. But we have to try for it. - Vladimir Putin

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Frederick S. Perls

“What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness. - Epicurus

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Charles Bronson

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.” - Walt Disney

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. — Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)

“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― Aaron Lauritsen

Hawkeye:
Did anyone ever tell you, you have the voice of a songbird slowly drowning in tar?

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine" - Humphrey Bogart

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan

"The look of the wolf penetrates to our soul." - Barry López.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. - Orison Swett Marden

"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes". - Harry Houdini

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

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow". - Helen Keller

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
― Paulo Coelho

"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!" - Carlos Castaneda

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton

"I do not do things in a hurry." - Lizzie Borden

Every living thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. - Jean Paul-Sartre

“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl