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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. - Booth Tarkington
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance. - Ronald Reagan
“How is it that you can see your enemies so clearly and never your friends?”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. - Henry Ward Beecher
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. - Charles Caleb Colton
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. - Antoni Gaudi
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. - Jose Rizal
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. - Emile Zola
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. - Winston Churchill
I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. - E. O. Wilson
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Veronica Roth
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. – Jack Kerouac
“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
― Dr. Seuss