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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see" - Mark Twain
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness. The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow” – Euripides
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. - Lawrence Durrell
I know I'm mad, I've always been mad, like a postage stamp - Pink Floyd
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. - John C. Calhoun
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas a Kempis
"Spring is the time of plans and projects." - Leo Tolstoy
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. - Daniel Berrigan
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” —Tennessee Williams
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. - Jean Paul
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
*points up* Truth
The more you know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time. Maxime Lagacé
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” - Mark Twain
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. - Malcolm Muggeridge
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. – M. Scott Peck
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. - Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The only real misfortune is to die unexamined." - Socrates
“There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.” —Henry David Thoreau
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that count." - Winston Churchill
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. - Theodor W. Adorno
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” — Oscar Wilde
The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that. - Gil Scott-Heron
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. - Otto von Bismarck