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“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because inspite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will distroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if i look up into the heavans, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the mean time, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the day will come when I shall be able to carry them out." ~Anne Frank”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention”
― Lisa Borden, The Alphabet of Avoidance: Simple solutions to immediately replace ‘bad’ habits with something better...or even, nothing at all.

“You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.”
― Eldridge Cleaver

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams-like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.”
― Herman Hesse

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.2 —PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, at a dinner in honor of all living recipients of the Nobel Prize, 1962”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk with the question:
How many of you really intend to be writers?
All hands went up.
In that case, said Lewis, my advice to you is to go home and write.
With that, he left.
Bits and Pieces-March 1997”
― Peter Prichard

“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”
― Winston Churchill

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
― Robert Schuller

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols