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“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
― Albert Einstein

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant. He is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas come to him involuntarily; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them; he is unceasingly modified by causes, whether visible or concealed, over which he has no control, which necessarily regulate his mode of existence, give the hue to his way of thinking, and determine his manner of acting. He is good or bad, happy or miserable, wise or foolish, reasonable or irrational, without his will being for any thing in these various states.”
― Baron d'Holbach

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
― Randy Pausch

“We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in the play a suggestion—sometimes explicit, sometimes only dimly implicit—that Faustus comes to destruction not merely through his own actions but through the actions of a hostile cosmos that entraps him. In this sense, too, there is something of Everyman in Faustus. The story of Adam, for instance, insists on Adam's culpability; Adam, like Faustus, made himself, rather than God, the center of his existence. And yet, despite the traditional expositions, one cannot entirely suppress the commonsense response that if the Creator knew Adam would fall, the Creator rather than Adam is responsible for the fall; Adam ought to have been created of better stuff.”
― Sylvan Barnet, Dr. Faustus

“If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
― Dhirubhai Ambani, Against All Odds: A Story of Courage, Perseverance and Hope [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] Dhirubhai Ambani

“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”
― Aristotle

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

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”
― Franz Kafka

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
― A.A. Milne

“Life calls the tune, we dance.”
― John Galsworthy

“Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.”
― Joss Whedon

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

“I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.”
― C. JoyBell C.