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"The most memorable concern of mankind is the guts it takes to face the sunlight again."
- Charles Bukowski

"Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. "
- Mark Twain

"Religion is not a value. Spirituality? Yes. Belief in God? OK. But religion itself? It's a discipline, one that pretends to be about love, family and charity, too often is a vehicle of hatred and war."
- Carl Sacks

"In order not to feel Time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, as you like. But get drunk."
- Baudelaire

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anais Nin

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
- Cyril Connolly

"In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
- Voltaire

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
- Henry Rollins

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
- Rose Kennedy.

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
- Gandhi

"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
- T.S. Eliot

"Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him."
- Dostoyevsky

"The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
- Wendell Berry

"Consider the world light,
And the spirit is not burdened;
Consider the myriad things slight,
And the mind is not confused.
Consider life and death equal,
And the intellect is not afraid;
Consider change as sameness,
And clarity is not obscured."
- Lao-tzu

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."
- Ayn Rand.

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
- Ben Okri

"Do not search out the Dragon to slay him, but instead to find love within his heart"
-Guiding Eagle

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
- Oscar Wilde

"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
- Rob Cella

"So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."
- Henry Rollins

"Those who awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge.
They live on emptiness.
They have seen how to break free.
Who can follow them?"
- Buddha in the Dhammapada

"It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to."
- Henry Rollins

"Change is constant. Yet things remain the same."
- Illyria

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung

"The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air,
who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds:
on earth, an exile among the scornful, where
he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings."
- The Albatross, Baudelaire

"It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily."
- Celeste Holm

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things."
- David & Leigh Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress

"When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; and the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends."
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore

"A long life isn't always a better one. In the end you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust. If you live long enough the only certainty is that you'll end up alone."
- DoctorWho

"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on Me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'"
- John Wing

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
- Abraham Lincon

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain

"When you have the will to succeed, you will somehow find a way, regardless of the obstacles you encounter."
- Napoleon Hill

"I'm not going to change who I am for other people. Like me for who I am now, or don't like me. And if you can't like me for who I am now, then you can just go to hell."
- Craig Miller

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody"
- Mark Twain

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
- H.P. Lovecraft

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
Anne Sexton

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
- Soren Kierkegaard

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."
- Erich Fromm

"All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always."
- Mahatma Gandhi

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."
- Ancient Proverb

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
- C.S. Lewis

"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you."
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

"Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
- Leo Buscaglia

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe

"It is to live that requires courage, not to die"
- Victoria Holt

"You only live once; but if you work it right, once is enough."
- Joe E. Lewis

"Life is worth living, we just need to figure out how."
- Jean Bull

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost

"Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb."
- Henry Rollins

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
- Harvey Fierstein

"You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
- H.P. Lovecraft

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