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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

God is dead – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life over here is short and regret lasts forever. Maybe happy is now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems like a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah

Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens

Judge a man by his questions not his answers. - Voltaire

The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
― Dean Koontz

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. - Swami Sivananda

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
― Katherine Dunn

"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

“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have courage to use your own understanding! - Immanuel Kant

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

Death is the worm at the core of the human condition. - William James

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

Shaun White

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JoyBell C.

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

“Ignorance is not bliss, but acceptance of ignorance is.”
― Abhijit Naskar

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. Vince Lombardi

“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
― L. Frank Baum

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

Lynda Barry

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

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

Revolt is the right of the people – John Locke