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“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift