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“Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man".”
― Satchel Paigel

“Of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.”
― Alan Moore

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

“I know this defies gravity, but you see Doc, I never studied law.”
― Bugs Bunny

“There are darkness's in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stocker, Dracula

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Learn your history. It’s a wonderful history. So many wonderful things have happened in the last 100 years. We have come so far. We still have a ways to go, but that’s your job, you and your children and their children. We will get there. I know it.”
― Buck O'Neil, The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History

“Its easy to forget how much you have when you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood