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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time

- together”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
― Francois Voltaire

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”
― Arthur Koestler

“And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”
― William Shakespeare

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“I want you to promise me something. If you love someone, you tell them. Even if you're scared that it's not the right thing. Even if you're scared that it will cause problems. Even if you're scared it will burn your life to the ground. You say it, and you say it loud. And then you go from there....”
― Mark Sloan

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.”
― Curt Siodmak

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?”
― William Blake

“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
― salvador dali

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.”
― William Faulkner