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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    John Lennon

  • #5
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
    Corrie ten Boom

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #17
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #20
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #23
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #24
    Gene Roddenberry
    “A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
    Gene Roddenberry

  • #25
    Gene Roddenberry
    “Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.”
    Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

  • #26
    Charles Dickens
    “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #29
    Charles Darwin
    “I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
    Charles Darwin

  • #30
    Charles Darwin
    “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
    Charles Darwin



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