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Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side. - John Kennedy
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
― Cassandra Clare
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. - Max Planck
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. - Willem de Kooning
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
― Sarah Dessen
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. - Thomas Merton
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Y. Davis
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - Carl Jung
"When you arise in the morning, think of what precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."– Babe Ruth
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. - e. e. cummings
"Believe you can and you're halfway there," - Theodore Roosevelt.
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. - Stephen Harper
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett
Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” - Buddha.
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. -
John Burrough
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
― Robin Williams
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. - W. Clement Stone
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - MLK Jr.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. - Mencius
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up. - Andre Leon Talley
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. - David Attenborough
"If freedom is to survive and prosper, it will require the sacrifice, the effort and the thoughtful attention of every citizen." JFK
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Saint Augustine
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. - Havelock Ellis
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. - Thomas Carlyle
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." — Anaïs Nin.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck