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“The best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Nothing else will make you happier.”
― George Lucas

“Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!”
― Osamu Tezuka

“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”
― Vincent Price

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
― Anonymous

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

“Pleasure's fun. It's great, but you can't keep it going forever; just accept the fact that it's here and it's gone, and maybe then again, it will come back, and you'll get to do it again. Joy lasts forever. Pleasure is purely self-centered. It's all about your pleasure: it's about you. It's a selfish, self-centered emotion, that is created by a self-centered motive of greed. Joy is compassion. Joy is giving yourself to somebody else, or something else. And it's a kind of thing that is, in its subtlety and lowness, much more powerful than pleasure. You get hung up on pleasure; you're doomed. If you pursue joy; you will find everlasting happiness.”
― George Lucas

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.”
― Stephen Colbert

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

“The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people.”
― Father Brown

“Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.”
― David Brown

“When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...”
― Hugo Pratt

“Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.”
― Eric Reynolds

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.”
― J. Chardonne

“You only lose when you stop trying.”
― Anoynmous

“Fear is the number one reason why people never live up to their potential.”
― Jeff Smith

“If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are...What we love.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“You do something, you make it simple, and everybody else starts loading it up with deep meanings. Which is okay with me, if they want to do that. Everybody loves Rorshach tests.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.”
― Gene Sharp

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
― Frederick Douglass

“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.”
― Ralph J. Bunche

“Poverty exists not because there isn’t enough wealth in the world, but because it is inequitably distributed.”
― Martin McLaughlin

“Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how.”
― Viktor Frankl

“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”
― Eric Hoffer