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  • #1
    “The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.”
    James Hunt

  • #2
    “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
    Shantideva

  • #3
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #5
    “A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
    Frank Crane

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
    Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #9
    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #10
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #11
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

  • #12
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
    Viktor Frankl

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #14
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #15
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY”
    Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
    "Not today, Mr. Weasley."
    Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “When in doubt, go to the library.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"
    "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
    "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Harry -- yer a wizard.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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