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Be the change that you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. -Benjamin Franklin Wade
A day without laughter is a day wasted. -Nicolas Chamfort
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran
May you live every day of your life. - Jonathan Swift
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. - Albert Camus
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign. -Laurence J. Peter
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespear
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. - Isaac Asimov
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. -Patrick Ness
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try. -Dr. Seuss
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. -Albert Einstein
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. -D.H. Lawrence
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. -Richard Dawkins
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. - Fitzgerald F. Scott
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. - Mo Willems
The past has no power over the present moment. - Eckhart Tolle
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. - Lao Tsu
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. - Santosh Kalwar
You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face. -Ian Fleming
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. - John Keats
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. - J.K.Rowling
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy. -Ludwig van Beethoven
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. -Gilles Deleuze
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!. -Adolf Hitler
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. -Oscar Wilde
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucius
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. - Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -Albert Einstein
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Socrates
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone. -Daniel Keyes
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. - Freidrich Neitzsche
The first duty of a man is to think for himself -Jose Marti
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace -Mahatma Gandhi
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -Ayn Rand
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. -Rollo May
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas
Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. - Ayn Rand
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. - Norton Juster
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. -Alan Wilson Watts
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg -Thomas Jefferson
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. - Karl Marx
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. -Simone de Beauvoir
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. - James Baldwin
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.†-George Lucas
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -Albert Einstein
Things do not change; we change. -henry david thoreau
belief is the death of intelligence. - Robert Anton Wilson
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. - Lao Tzu
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. -Albert Camus,
“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. -Dan Millman
Wisest is she who knows she does not know. - Jostein Gaarder
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. - Carl Sagan
Robertson Davies “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep -Albert Camus
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure -Arthur Schopenhauer
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. - Niccolò Machiavelli
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. -Marcus Aurelius
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. - Garth Stein
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. -Alan Watts
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -George Orwell
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars -Seneca
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. -Kurt Vonnegut
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. - Ayn Rand
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. -Ludwig van Beethoven
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth
There are no ordinary moments. -Dan Millman
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -Vladimir Lenin
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. - Noam Chomsky
All knowledge is worth having. -Jacqueline Carey
Take it easy, but take it. - Woody Guthrie
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. -Heinrich Heine
The menu is not the meal. - Alan Watts
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. - Stephen Fry
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. - Stephen Fry
