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“Love is being stupid together.”
― Paul Valery

“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”
― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Success comes only when you act on what you know and believe. What your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve!”
― Napoleon Hill, Law of Success: The Original Unedited Edition

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The commodity traders are arbitragers par excellence, trying to exploit a series of differences in prices. Because they’re doing deals to buy and to sell all the time, they are often indifferent to whether commodity prices overall go up or down. What matters to them is the price disparity – between different locations, different qualities or forms of a product, and different delivery dates. By exploiting these price differences, they help to make markets more efficient, directing resources to their highest value uses in response to price signals. They are, in the words of one academic, the visible manifestation of Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
― Javier Blas, The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“«Al mattino, quando non hai voglia di alzarti, ti sia presente questo pensiero: mi sveglio per compiere il mio mestiere di uomo». Cosí scrive l’imperatore Marco Aurelio (Pensieri, V, 1)”
― Umberto Veronesi, Il mestiere di uomo

“Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton

“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”
― John Cleese

“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Live life today like there is no coffee tomorrow.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well