- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
- "Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today" - Lawrence Krauss
- "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
- "Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." —Albert Einstein
- "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places." - Roald Dahl
- "Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness." - Vladimir Nabokov
- "I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you're being sucked down into the ocean and you can't breathe. It's something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you're either going to explode with it, or you're just going to disappear." - Florence Welch
- "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom" - Søren Kierkegaard
- "Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested" - Hunter S. Thompson
- "The only people for me are the mad ones - the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars" - Jack Kerouac
- "Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it's not real?" - J.K.Rowling (Albus Dumbledore)
- "Logic will get you from A-Z, imagination will get you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
- "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
- "Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty." - Charles Baudelaire
- "Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly" - Franz Kafka
- "I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night". - Galileo Galilei
- "From my rotting body flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity" - Edvard Munch
- "That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from everyone. You Belong." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest." - Anaïs Nin
- "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
- "And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long." - Sylvia Plath
- "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." - Federico Garcia Lorca
- "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Arthur Conan Doyle
- "It always seems impossible until it's done" - Nelson Mandela
- "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one". - George R.R. Martin
- "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strenght, then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it and it will never be used to hurt you." - George R.R. Martin
- "There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: Not today." - George R.R. Martin
- "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J.K. Rowling
- "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde
- "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
- "To define is to limit" - Oscar Wilde
- "Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Your head is a living forest full of songbirds" - E.E. Cummings
- "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center" - Kurt Vonnegut
- "The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is." - Stephen Fry
- "I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance" - Stephen Fry
- When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- I don't want to believe. I want to know. - Carl Sagan
- I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. - Sylvia Plath
- I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. - Frida Kahlo
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the end, we'll all become stories. - Margaret Atwood
- Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones - John Lennon
- "So many people only want answers. To be a scientist you have to learn to love the questions. You’ll learn that some of the greatest mysteries of the universe remain unanswered, and that’s the fun part. That’s the part that gets you awake in the morning and running to the office, because there’s a problem awaiting your attention that you might just solve that day. You have to embrace the unknown and embrace your own ignorance." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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