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“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
― Groucho Marx

“No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.”
― Carol Ann Duffy

“What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
― Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― 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

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
― Brené Brown

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”
― Anne Wilson Schaef

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
― Joss Whedon

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

“The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.”
― John Vance Cheney

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
― Albert Camus

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus