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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Ignorance is the world's oldest prison,
fear is the world's oldest slave master,
envy is the world's oldest poison,
desire is the world's oldest fuel,
curiosity is the world's oldest scholar,
conscience is the world's oldest preacher,
karma is the world's oldest judge,
time is the world's oldest healer,
destiny is the world's oldest prophet,
truth is the world's oldest sage,
courage is the world's oldest warrior,
love is the world's oldest angel,
joy is the world's oldest medicine,
intelligence is the world's oldest professor,
light is the world's oldest mirror,
eternity is the world's oldest vault,
knowledge is the world's oldest tree,
wisdom is the world's oldest fountain,
nature is the world's oldest clock,
reality is the world's oldest portrait,
darkness is the world's oldest curtain,
stars are the world's oldest lamps,
the sky is the world's oldest blanket,
the Earth is the world's oldest bedroom,
life is the world's oldest theatre,
fate is the world's oldest conductor,
people are the world's oldest actors,
angels are the world's oldest spectators,
and God is the world's oldest theatre owner.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend