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“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
― WC Fields

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“Keep an open mind - but not so open that your brain falls out.”
― Richard Feynman

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and that its quantitative evaluation is subject to change as we obtain more information.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
― Francis Bacon

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“You wanted to know how I did it? That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”
― Andrew Niccol, Gattaca: The Shooting Script

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.”
― Louis C.K.

“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
― Epicurus

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
― Immanuel Kant

“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
― Daniel Dennett

“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”
― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.”
― Thomas Sowell

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty