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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Fear can’t hurt you,” she said. “When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”
― Robert Downey Jr

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

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

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have.
I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro