- "When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better." - Mae West
- "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up." - Pablo Picasso
- "The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." — Albert Einstein
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
- "I'd rather regret the things that I have done than I have not." - Lucille Ball
- "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
- "But he that does not dare grasp the thorn should not crave the rose." - Anne Bronte
- "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence." - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology." - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin
- “I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.” - Salma Hayek
- “Love is my religion - I could die for it.” - John Keats
- “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” - Victor Hugo
- “When it is darkest, men see the stars.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." - Gandhi
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” - E. Joseph Cossman
- “Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together” - Francesco Petrarch
- “Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never.” - Winston Churchill
- "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." - Samuel Johnson
- “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” - Edith Wharton
- “Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.” - Nicolas de Chamfort
- “Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy” - Thelonious Monk
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” - Mother Teresa
- "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not." - Kurt Cobain
- “All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.” - Marilyn Monroe
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
- "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" - George Carlin
- “If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.” - Mae West
- “They didn’t break me. I am broken.” - House
- "I love thee, I love but thee. With a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old." - William Shakespeare
- “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” - John Lennon
- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
- "Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." - Gwyneth Paltrow
- “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” - Bob Dylan
- “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "It is not length of life but depth of life." Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
- “Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.” - Charles Peguy
- “Everything has its beauty…” - Confucius
- "True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds — a handful of stars tossed into the night sky." — Jim Bishop
- "An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us." — Thomas Moore
- "We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it." — Phillips Brooks
- "Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." — Oscar Wilde
- "May you live all the days of your life." — Jonathon Swift
- "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." — Harry Kemp
- "Without music, life is a journey through a desert." — Pat Conroy
- "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." — Samuel Johnson
- "Live out your imagination, not your history." — Stephen Covey
- "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." — Chinese proverb
- "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." — Doris Mortman
- "Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart." — Humphrey Davy
- "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain." — Dolly Parton
- "Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!" — Edwin Markham
- "It is better to stumble with your feet than with your tongue." — Swedish proverb
- "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die." — Albert Camus
- "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "When the freedom we wish for is the freedom from responsibility, then we cease to be free." — Author unknown
- "When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it." — M. Scott Peck
- "Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude." — Joseph Wood Krutch
- "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportions." — Francis Bacon
- "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." — Benoit Mandelbrot
- "Every morning when I get up, the first thing I decide is: What do you want? Misery? Blisfullness? What are you going to choose today? And it happens that I always choose blissfulness. It is my choice, it is my life." - Abdullah
- "Fathomless is the sea, so it is with the ways of man. To pursue one's ambitions and not knowing when to stop, alas! Instead of contentment and comfort, it brings endless anxieties and disasters upon oneself." - Koh Chan
- "You can never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself — your hopes, your fears." — Jim Whitaker
- "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." — Albert Einstein
- "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." — George Eliot
- "I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams.
- "Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it." - The Color Purple, Alice Walker.
- "Whatever one loves most is beautiful." - Sappho.
- "Beauty is not caused. It is." - Emily Dickinson.
- "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
- "The worst crime is faking it". - Kurt Cobain
- "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic." - Anais Nin
- "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin
- "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." - Anais Nin
- "When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others." - Anais Nin
- "Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon Bonaparte
- "I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant." - Ursula K. Le Guin
- "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."- William Butler Yeats
- "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica." - Stephen Leacock
- "Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it." - Duane Michals
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost
- “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
- “There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.” - Frank Zappa
- “If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own… how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.” - William Allen White
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde
- “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” - William Shakespeare
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.” - William Shakespeare
- “All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.” - Rita Hayworth
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” - Katherine Mansfield
- “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Love all. Trust few. Do wrong to no one.” - Shakespeare
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