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  • #1
    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    Jack London

  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #3
    Orhan Pamuk
    “For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #4
    Bruce Lee
    “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
    This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
    Bruce Lee

  • #6
    Paulo Coelho
    “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
    Paulo Coelho
    tags: life

  • #6
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
    "What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
    The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
    paulo coelho

  • #8
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #9
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #10
    William  James
    “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
    William James

  • #11
    William  James
    “There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”
    William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

  • #12
    William  James
    “When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”
    William James

  • #13
    William  James
    “Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
    William James

  • #14
    William  James
    “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
    Williams James

  • #15
    William  James
    “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second”
    William James

  • #16
    William  James
    “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”
    William James

  • #17
    William  James
    “Resign your destiny to higher powers.”
    William James

  • #18
    William  James
    “You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”
    William James

  • #19
    Will  Smith
    “Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us.”
    Will Smith

  • #20
    Louis Armstrong
    “The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night”
    Louis Armstrong

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
    Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

  • #22
    Charlie Chaplin
    “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”
    Charlie Chaplin

  • #23
    Charlie Chaplin
    “You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
    Charlie Chaplin

  • #24
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #25
    Jules Verne
    “I dream with my eyes open.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: fancy

  • #26
    Jules Verne
    “As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

  • #27
    Alexander Pope
    “Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
    Man never Is, but always To be blest.
    The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
    Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

  • #28
    Theodore Roethke
    “My father is a fish.”
    Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #30
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon



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