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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. -Dante Alighieri
“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln
“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. - Bertolt Brecht
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. - Baltasar Gracian
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. - bell hooks
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. - George Ade
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. - Jean de La Fontaine
“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. - Thomas Aquinas
“Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. - Julius Caesar
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. - Albert Schweitzer
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe