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In short I will part with anything for you but you. – Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough.” – Osho
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela
The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” — Michael Phelps
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage. - Charles A. Beard
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings. - Alex Grey
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen
“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Conflict cannot survive without your participation. - Wayne Dyer
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. - T. C. Boyle
“But hunger could wear down even the bravest heart.”
― Marcia Armandi, Awaken
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Christian Nestell Bovee
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief." - William Shakespeare.
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. – T. C. Boyle
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. - Simón Bolívar
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. - Thomas Jefferson
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision. - Daniel Kahneman
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
— Socrates
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. - Dalai Lama
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? - St Augustine
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Nelson Mandela
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
― Paulo Coelho