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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
    "Tom, I am not everybody.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Seneca
    “The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
    Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • #17
    Seneca
    “People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • #18
    Epictetus
    “The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #19
    Epictetus
    “Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #20
    Epictetus
    “If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #21
    Epictetus
    “Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #22
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #23
    Epictetus
    “Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Epictetus
    “You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.”
    Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer



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