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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. - George Washington
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
Criss Jami
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
-Edgar Allan Poe
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. – Muhammad Ali
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― idowu koyenikan
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Thomas A. Edison
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius,
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-H.G. Wells
“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix,
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
-Edgar Allan Poe
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
― Carl Sagan
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. - Washington Irving
“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. - Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking." – Steve Jobs
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
—Steve Martin
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
"I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality."
Jared Leto
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. - e. e. cummings
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child