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“Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?”
― Henry Miller, The World Of Sex

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.”
― James Baldwin

“The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta #8

“I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Love your rage, not your cage.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“What part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world?”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“If you let the fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
― Katharine Butler Hathaway

“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
― Katharine Butler Hathaway

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
― Gospel of Thomas

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Howard Thurman, The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”
― E.E. Cummings

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“Care about people´s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back, the only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Bad decisions make good stories.
--from an Internet list.”
― Ellis Vidler

“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”
― Saul Williams

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress
July 4th, 1861”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” ― Abraham Lincoln”
― Jules Marcoux, The Marketing Blueprint: Lessons to Market & Sell Anything

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower