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  • #1
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #2
    Sara Zarr
    “. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.”
    Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

  • #3
    Martin Heidegger
    “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.”
    Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A person hears only what they understand.”
    Johann wolfgang von Goethe

  • #6
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    George Burns

  • #12
    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    Margaret Thatcher

  • #15
    Audrey Hepburn
    “There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Pablo Picasso
    “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

  • #23
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #24
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #25
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #26
    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    Michael Levine

  • #27
    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #28
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #29
    Sara Zarr
    “I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.”
    Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

  • #30
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon



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