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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”
― Tracee Ellis Ross

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know”
― Tariq Ramadan

“On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You can’t change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.”
― Derek Hough, Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.”
― Kathy Mangold, Confidence In Conflict For Everyday Life: How to prevent and manage the inevitable conflict in your work and personal life

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
― Charles R. Swindoll

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate