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

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon