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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

“Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are going.
Alice: I don’t know.
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell book 1984

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher