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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“I am grateful for our imperfect world with lots of hardships, so I can be one of those who contribute to making it better ♡”
― Young H.D. Kim

“It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex. Or perhaps it was never His intent to delay marriage in an effort to "become more independent," "enjoy singlehood," and "build our careers.”
― Vicki Courtney, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter

“A boy never outgrows his need for adventure. As mothers, we will need to develop a healthy balance when it comes to cultivating our sons' innate sense of adventure without overprotecting them in the process or, for that matter, not protecting them at all.”
― Vicki Courtney, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son

“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Uncertainty makes people afraid even when it is logically clear and reasonable. Thus, old fame familiar to them assures the people better even if it doesn't make any sense...”
― Young H. D. Kim

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
― Marianne Williamson

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“Their dreams were just greedy, but ours have been and will always be ambitious.”
― Young H. D. Kim

“The only way to conquer your fear is to face it straight on.”
― Young H. D. Kim

“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”
― David Schwartz

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“remember that you can find friends: remember that there are people similar to you. All you have to do is look up.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“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