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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #3
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #4
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #9
    “Do not understand how the battle is fought, in which the fight takes place with itself.”
    Surya Raj

  • #10
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #11
    “God damn it, Minyard. This is why we can't have nice things.”
    Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

  • #12
    “It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
    Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

  • #13
    “Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”
    robert m drake

  • #14
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #15
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #16
    Ambrose Bierce
    Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #17
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #18
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #19
    Ambrose Bierce
    “MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: humor

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

    [never tickle a sleeping dragon]”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #22
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #23
    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
    René Descartes

  • #24
    Horatius
    “Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
    Horace, The Odes of Horace

  • #25
    Ovid
    “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
    Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses

  • #26
    Kendall Ryan
    “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

    I will either find a way or make one.”
    Kendall Ryan, Unravel Me

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

  • #28
    Ovid
    “Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”
    Ovid

  • #29
    Dorian Cirrone
    “Veni, vidi, flevi.

    I came. I saw. I cried.”
    Dorian Cirrone, Prom Kings and Drama Queens

  • #30
    Ransom Riggs
    “Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed.”
    Ransom Riggs, Hollow City



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