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“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“The first true love is always the last one.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter

Also attributed to Johnny Depp.

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

As quoted in Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000) by Darrin Zeer, p. 52

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“The sadness will last forever.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain book Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed