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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans