- "If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you." - Don Marquis
- "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
- "There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands." - Oscar Wilde
- "There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” - Audrey Hepburn
- "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Gandhi
- "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." - Charles Bukowski
- “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” - Anais Nin
- "The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves." - Charles Bukowski
- “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” - Marcus Aurelius
- “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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