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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
“Life over here is short and regret lasts forever. Maybe happy is now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems like a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens
Judge a man by his questions not his answers. - Voltaire
The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
― Dean Koontz
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. - Swami Sivananda
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
― Katherine Dunn
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have courage to use your own understanding! - Immanuel Kant
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Death is the worm at the core of the human condition. - William James
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.
Shaun White
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott
No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JoyBell C.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.— Socrates
“Ignorance is not bliss, but acceptance of ignorance is.”
― Abhijit Naskar
The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind. — Wim Hof
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. Vince Lombardi
“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
― L. Frank Baum
The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?
Lynda Barry
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith
“Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers, thus we plant the paradigm of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant
“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
― Jess C Scott
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. – Marcus Aurelius
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
Peter Ustinov
"To be a Vampyre is to be yourself to the extreme." - Father Sebastiaan
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway
"The kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall know himself shall find it." -Ancient Egyptian Quote
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
The flow of time is always cruel… Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it.” – Sheik (Ocarina of Time
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” — George Burns
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan
"Some things are true whether you believe them or not."
Seth - City Of Angels
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
Saint Augustine
“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”
― bell hooks