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There are times when a well-placed pawn is more powerful than the king. - Benjamin Franklin
“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.”
― Peter Straub
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. - Napoleon Bonaparte
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first - Mark Twain
“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. - William Allingham
“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.”
― Melody Lee
I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - W.B. Yeats
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere, The ceremony of innocence is drowned. – W.B. Yeats
“How can you even know what you want, if you don't know who you are? Invest the time and energy into getting to know yourself. Get real with yourself.”
― Akiroq Brost
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. – Aeschylus
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
The world is nevee quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. - Albert Camus
“Do not choose friends who only flatter you, but who understand you. True friendship implies willingness to speak frankly, to point out the mistakes we made and to exchange opinions freely.”
― Eraldo Banovac
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. - Franz Kafka
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley