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“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
― Albert Einstein

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
― John Ruskin

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.”
― Neel Burton

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”
― C.G. Jung

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun