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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“god lets bad things happen to good people to test their faith, but the goddess knows the faithful and knows that bad things only make people stronger. and there's nothing wrong with stronger.”
― jennifer dimarco

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
― Helen Hayes

“I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”
― Janette Barber

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
― Bette Davis

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
― Catherine Aird

“I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.”
― Roseanne Barr

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit