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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Variant: I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Source: Monet By Himself
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135
“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”
José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere
Source: Noli Me Tángere
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Variant: You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.
“I wish they would take me as I am.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj book I Am That
I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
Alan Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.