• It is the first duty of the humanist and the fundamental task of intelligence to ensure knowledge and understanding among men. It is worthwhile to have struggled and to have sung, it is worthwhile to have lived, because I have loved. [Pablo Neruda, from his nobel lecture]
  • Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been". [John Greenleaf Whittier]
  • Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself [Doris Lessing]
  • Music is the shorthand of emotion. [Leo Tolstoy]
  • Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
  • What we see depends mainly on what we look for. [John Lubbock]
  • God is dead, and we have killed him. [Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil]
  • Nietzsche is dead. [God]
  • Live as if to die tomorrow. Learn as if to live forever. [Ghandi]
  • When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer... [Friedreich Nietzsche]
  • It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. [Roman Emperor Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)]
  • If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.
  • A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
  • Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. [Virgil Thomson]
  • Paralized with empathy I clearly saw the arguments from both sides. Each side was, in a way, right. Yet they were in complete disagreement. So I did nothing.
  • For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. [George Allen]
  • There's no future in time travel.
  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper [Robert Frost]
  • He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know. [Lao Tzu]
  • Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else
  • Never test the depth of the water with both feet
  • It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others
  • That man is best who sees the truth himself,
    good too is he who listens to wise counsel;
    but who is neither wise himself, nor willing
    to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
    [Hesiod]
  • The life that I have is all that I have,
    and the life that I have is yours.
    The love that I have of the life that I have
    Is yours and yours and yours.
    [Leo Marks]

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