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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.”
― Stephen Fry

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
― Voltaire

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
― Khalil Gibran

“The journey is the thing.”
― Homer

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.”
― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.”
― Deepak Chopra

“To oppose something is to maintain it… To be sure, if you turn your back on [something] and walk away from it, you are still on the [same] road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”
― John Lennon, The Beatles Anthology

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree.”
― Karl R. Popper, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
― Anais Nin

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
― John Lennon

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”
― James Cameron

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Robert J. Hanlon

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda