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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.”
― Adolf Loos

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Dear Life,
You SUCK!
I want out.
See you on the flipside.

Sincerely,
Cricket”
― Scott Blagden, Dear Life, You Suck

“Be afraid not to.”
― Cherese A. Vines

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

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”
― Alison Croggon, The Naming

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”
― Randall Jarrell

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood