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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire
“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. – Voltaire
“Twas the night before Thanksgiving.
All the food's in the oven.
And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.”
― Craig Ferguson
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. – Charles d Gaulle
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. - Laurence J. Peter
"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
― W. Clement Stone
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. – Arthur Conan Doyle
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
― Rumi
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we
experience them - Khalil Gibran
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. - E. M. Forster
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung
Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. - Mary Wortley Montagu
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
― Anaïs Nin
“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. - Eugene Ionesco
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
-Alan Watts
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C . S. Lewis
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find
some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus