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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”

“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“All great achievements require time.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

“Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”

“How is it possible to have a civil war?”

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Without literature, life is hell.”

“Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”

“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”

“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”

“Shallow men believe in luck.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost”

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”

“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”

“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”