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• “No Mud, No Lotus”

(Thich Nhat Hanh)

• “Carpe diem.”

(Odes I, 11.8, Horácio)

• “Men will learn that politics is not morality and that it concerns itself only with what is opportune.”

(Henry David Thoreau)

• “It is better, much better, to be content with reality; If it is not as bright as dreams, it at least has the advantage of existing.”

(Machado de Assis)

• “I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

(Carl Sagan)

• “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”

(Epicurus)

• “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”

(Arthur C. Clarke)

• “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

(Neil deGrasse Tyson)

• “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to discover something. Success and failure are for him answers above all else.”

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

• “Nothing in life should be feared, it should only be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so we can fear less.”

(Maria Curie)

• “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

(Marilyn Monroe)

• “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

(Abigail Van Buren)

• “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

(Albert Einstein)

• “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

(Isaac Asimov)

• “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

(William Shakespeare, As You Like It)

• “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

(Franz Kafka)

• “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)” ― Albert Einstein

• “This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.”

― Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

• “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

(Alan Watts)