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“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.”
― Jack Kornfield

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”
― Frank Zappa, Zappa: A Biography

“What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”
― John Schaar

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.”
― Sam Cooke