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  • Mark Twain
    "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
    Mark Twain


  • Groucho Marx
    "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
    Groucho Marx


  • Kurt Vonnegut
    "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
    Kurt Vonnegut


  • Dr. Seuss
    "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
    Dr. Seuss


  • Albert Einstein
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    Albert Einstein


  • Maya Angelou
    "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
    Maya Angelou


  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
    Eleanor Roosevelt


  • Mark Twain
    "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
    Mark Twain


  • Albert Einstein
    "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
    Albert Einstein


  • Albert Camus
    "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
    Albert Camus


  • Abraham Lincoln
    "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
    Abraham Lincoln


  • Mae West
    "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
    Mae West


  • Albert Einstein
    "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    Albert Einstein


  • Mark Twain
    "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
    Mark Twain


  • Robert Fulghum
    "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
    Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
    Isaac Asimov


  • Socrates
    "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
    Socrates


  • Mahatma Gandhi
    "7 DEADLY SINS

    Wealth without work

    Pleasure without conscience

    Science without humanity

    Knowledge without character

    Politics without principle

    Commerce without morality

    Worship without sacrifice."
    Mahatma Gandhi


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Oscar Wilde
    "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
    Oscar Wilde


  • Aristotle
    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
    Aristotle


  • "The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
    shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
    but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
    smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
    but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
    problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

    We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
    drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
    little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
    possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and
    hate too often.

    We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to
    life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
    have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
    space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

    We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom,
    but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
    accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more
    computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we
    communicate less and less.

    These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
    character, steep profits and shallow relationships.

    These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but
    broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway
    morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything
    from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the
    showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can
    bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share
    this insight, or to just hit delete...

    Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not
    going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks
    up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave
    your side.

    Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the
    only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

    Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most
    of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from
    deep inside of you.

    Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might
    not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to
    share the precious thoughts in your mind."
    Bob Moorehead


  • Jimi Hendrix
    "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
    Jimi Hendrix


  • Frank Zappa
    "Information is not knowledge.
    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is THE BEST."
    Frank Zappa


  • Anaïs Nin
    "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
    Anaïs Nin


  • Mark Twain
    "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
    Mark Twain


  • Robert Frost
    "The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference."
    Robert Frost


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say"
    J.R.R. Tolkien


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "Upon the hearth the fire is red
    Beneath the roof there is a bed
    But not yet weary are our feet
    Still round the corner we may meet
    A sudden tree or standing stone
    That none have seen but we alone
    Tree and flower and leaf and grass
    Let them pass! Let them pass!
    Hill and water under sky
    Pass them by! Pass them by!

    "Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gait
    And though we pass them by today
    Tomorrow we may come this way
    And take the hidden paths that run
    Towards the moon or to the sun
    Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
    Let them go! Let them go!
    Sand and stone and pool and dell
    Fare you well! Fare you well!

    "Home is behind the world ahead
    And there are many paths to tread
    Through shadows to the edge of night
    Until the stars are all alight
    Then world behind and home ahead
    We’ll wander back to home and bed
    Mist and twilight, cloud and shade
    Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
    Fire and lamp and meat and bread
    And then to bed! And then to bed!

    "Still round the corner there may wait
    A hidden road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    There may come a time at last that I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    East of the moon west of the sun."
    J.R.R. Tolkien


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by frost."
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
    J.R.R. Tolkien


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of Húrin)


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "'In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,' said Aragorn: 'you still speak in riddles.'

    'What? In riddles?' said Gandalf. 'No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.'"
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)


  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter, scraped over too much bread.~~
    Bilbo Baggins on the occasion of his 111st Birthday"
    J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


  • Marcel Proust
    "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
    Marcel Proust


  • H.P. Lovecraft
    "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
    H.P. Lovecraft


  • Ursula K. LeGuin
    "To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."
    Ursula K. LeGuin


  • Gordon B. Hinckley
    "Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."
    Gordon B. Hinckley


  • Cornelia Funke
    "If you take a book with you on a journey,...an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."
    Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)


  • Philippa Boyens
    "Gandalf: The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. Grey rain curtan of this world rolls back and it all turns to silver glass. And then you see it."
    "Pippen: What Gandalf? What?"
    "Gandalf: White shores. And beyond, the far green country and a swift sunrise."
    "Pippen: That isn't so bad."
    "Gandalf: No. No, it isn't."

    (From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
    Philippa Boyens


  • Hunter S. Thompson
    "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
    Hunter S. Thompson


  • Paulo Coelho
    "We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."
    Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)


  • Confucius
    "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
    Confucius


  • Lemony Snicket
    ""At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

    (quote at the end of the movie, when they're driving away from their burned down house)"
    Lemony Snicket


  • "You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."
    Robert Jordon (Starscape Boxed Set B)


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
    Winston S. Churchill


  • A.A. Milne
    "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
    A.A. Milne


  • Mark Twain
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
    Mark Twain



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