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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards — Søren Kierkegaard
"Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process". - Terry Bradshaw
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
“A world full of technological advancements but without a single caring heart, is more dead than alive.”
― Abhijit Naskar
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Time doesn't heal anything, it just teaches us how to live with the pain" - Itachi Uchiha
Every suffering inches you closer to your freedom.— Unknown
"The occultist does not try to dominate Nature, but to bring himself into harmony with these great Cosmic Forces, and work with them." - Dion Fortune
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilk
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (novel 'The Little Prince')
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth". - Chuck Norris
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death—and I refuse suicide.
― Albert Camus
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell
“I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.” - Robert Koch
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. - Dante Alighieri
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo Buscaglia
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. - Albert Camus
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." — Mark Twain
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 (A Monster Calls)
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 (A Monster Calls)