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Here are some quotes that I have collected over the years that resonate with me for different reasons.
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If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story - Orson Welles
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple - Jack Kerouac
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily - Napoleon
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
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“Oh, you can’t help that”, said the cat. “We’re all mad here” - Lewis Carroll
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Cowards never start, the weak never finish - Father Fehily
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Pretend to be completely in control, and people will assume you are - Nolan Bushnell to Steve Jobs
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Good artists copy, great artists steal - Picasso
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The best way to predict the future is to create it - Abraham Lincoln
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Better to be a pirate than join the navy - Steve Jobs
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Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come - Haruki Marakami
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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
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We beat well worn paths
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - Scott F. Fitzgerald
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You should be aware of the system but lose yourself in it
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Wise too late, old too soon - Father Fehily
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Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party - Jimmy Buffett
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There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant - Ralph Emerson
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The reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once - Einstein
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Shakespeare
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We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan and into the fire - Eric Hoffer
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We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails - Cora L.V. Hatch
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Without leaps of imagination, you lose the excitement of possibility. - Gloria Steinem
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won - Churchill
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There’s nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self - Hemmingway
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One that has loved not wisely, but too well - Shakespeare
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I find my truest self in solitude
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To cure the soul by means of the senses, and senses by means of the soul - Oscar Wilde
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His sturdy egoism could no longer sustain his peremptory heart - Scott F. Fitzgerald
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You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain - Batman
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People are who they are
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Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and stare for a while, it might pass you by - Ferris Bueller
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The end is where we start from - T.S. Eliot
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Parting is such sweet sorrow - Shakespeare
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All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Leo Tolstoy
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The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for - Bob Marley
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself - Oscar Wilde
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all - Oscar Wilde
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In the end, it’s all about old friends
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss
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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal - C.S. Lewis
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In the end, it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the years in your life - Abraham Lincoln
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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory - Dr. Seuss
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We’re not all one thing
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We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin- André Berthiaume
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Haruki Murakami
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. – C.S. Lewis
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Never make decisions when you’re reeling from a loss
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This too shall pass
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man - Heraclitus
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The best things in life lie on the other side of sacrifice
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is - Charles Bukowski
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I know no better purpose for life than to die in service of the great and the impossible - Nietzsche
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing, where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges.- Nietzsche