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“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.”

Julius Evola (1898–1974) Italian philosopher and esotericist

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

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

“[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”

Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting… Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

“When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

“Anything forced is not beautiful”

Xenophon (-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”

Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor