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“If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”
― Peter Thiel

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
― George Bernard shaw

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Mit dem Selbstvertrauen ist es wie mit dem Quellwasser. Es versiegt nur selten. Wer sie findet, diese Quelle im eigenen Ich, kann sie ein Leben lang nutzen. Alles Suchen, alle Umwege sind nichts als Verirrungen im Labyrinth der Möglichkeiten. Rückschläge und der erlittene Neuanfang speisen das Vertrauen in uns selbst. Denn nicht der Durst, Leiden schafft Leidenschaft.”
― Reinhold Messner, Über Leben

“Wenn man sein Ziel erreicht hat, muss man neu anfangen und dabei immer das nutzen, was man auf dem Weg gelernt hat.”
― Paulo Coelho

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“You raze the old to raise the new.”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”
― Germany Kent

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
― Alan Watts

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
― David Allen

“The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.”
― Aristippus

“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded a certain category of people even from the possibility of fighting for freedom—a fight possible under tyranny, and even under the desperate conditions of modern terror (but not under any conditions of concentration-camp life). Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were "born" free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature. Yet in the light of recent events it is possible to say that even slaves still belonged to some sort of human community; their labor was needed, used, and exploited, and this kept them within the pale of humanity. To be a slave was after all to have a distinctive character, a place in society—more than the abstract nakedness of beig human and nothing but human. Not the loss of specific rights, then, but the loss of a community willing and able to guarantee any rights whatsoever, has been the calamity which has befallen ever-increasing numbers of people. Man, it turns out, can lose all so-called Rights of Man without losing his essential quality as man, his human dignity. Only the loss of a polity itself expels him from humanity.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt: der gestirnte Himmel über mir und das moralische Gesetz in mir.”
― Kant Immanuel

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain