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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”

“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”

“The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was.”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

“The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.”

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

“Be the flame, not the moth.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”