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  • #1
    Max Ehrmann
    “If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
    Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

  • #2
    “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
    Dean Smith

  • #3
    “Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
    Cher

  • #4
    Sharon Pollock
    “There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
    Sharon Pollock

  • #5
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #6
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Alan W. Watts
    “the future is a concept—it doesn’t exist There is no such thing as tomorrow There never will be because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
    Alan Watts

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #11
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #12
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #14
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.”
    Robert Anton Wilson

  • #15
    Alan W. Watts
    “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

  • #16
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

  • #17
    Ryan Holiday
    “To bear trials with a calm mind
    robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” —SENECA, HERCULES OETAEUS, 231–232”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

  • #18
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #21
    Sue Grafton
    “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
    Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #24
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #25
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

  • #26
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Johanna Spyri
    “I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
    Johanna Spyri, Heidi

  • #29
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #30
    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly



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