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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe