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“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”
― Virginia Woolf

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There is always time for another last minute”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
― Robert Anthony

“Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...”
― Annie Proulx

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
― Tom Peters

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

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

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles”
― Audrey Hepburn

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
― Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt