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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. - Muhammad Ali
I want my children to be judged by the strenght of their character not the color of their skin MLK
I want a black woman as my vice president Joe Biden
Let him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates
“Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. - Jack Kerouac
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe. - Charles R. Swindoll
it is impossible to suffer and not make someone else pay for it, as every complaint contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. - Jean Paul
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown - William Shakespeare (King Henry IV, Part 2)
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. - Voltaire
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. - Benjamin Franklin
“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. - Robertson Davies
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln
" All we are saying is give peace a chance" - John Lennon
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can. - Carl Rogers
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. - Thomas Hardy
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. - Christopher Columbus