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“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
― M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.”
― Bacon

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
― Vince Lombardi

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.”
― Raymond Charles Barker

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
― Diane Ackerman

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess.”
― Dag Hammarskjold

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Map out your future, but do it in pencil.”
― Jon Bon Jovi

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
― Flavia Weedn

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

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
― Morris West

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.”
― Lily Tomlin