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“getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.”
― william wordsworth

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.”
― Raymond Carver

“vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“i never learned anything while i was talking.”
― Larry King

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
― Rosalynn Carter

“every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.”
― Ayn Rand

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

“the question i am asked daily by the world... was that all you wanted?”
― Genine Lentine

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Who is John Galt?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)