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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. - Horace Walpole
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men. - - William Godwin
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. - David Hume
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. - Abraham Maslow
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” ~ Anne Frank.
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. - David Lynch
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. - George Eliot
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. - W. E. B. Du Bois
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson