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“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“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

“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"

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
― Hiram Johnson

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I don’t care about losing people who don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and I’m still doing just fine.”
― Pleasure P

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Είναι μεγάλης αξίας να μπορείς να λες - και να το εννοείς : "Είμαι μαζί σου εφόσον συμπλέουμε όμορφα, αλλιώς φεύγω! Δεν είναι ότι παύω να σ'αγαπώ, να σε βοηθάω, αλλά μπορώ να σ'αγαπώ κι από μακριά! Μπορώ να σε νοιάζομαι και απο μακριά, αλλά δεν θέλω να σε συναναστρέφομαι! Το κοντά μού χαλάει χαρακτήρα μου, το κοντά μας λερώνει την αθωότητα μας.”
― Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη, Σιωπάς για να ακούγεσαι

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy

“Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.”
― Ralph W. Sockman

“...Έτσι, μ' αυτήν την κωλοεφεύρεση που τη λένε ρολόι, σπρώχνουμε τις ώρες και τις μέρες σα να μας είναι βάρος, και μας είναι βάρος, γιατί δε ζούμε, κατάλαβες;' Όλο κοιτάμε το ρολόι, να φύγει κι αυτή η ώρα, να φύγει κι αυτή η μέρα, να έρθει το αύριο, και πάλι φτου κι απ'την αρχή.
Χωρίσαμε τη μέρα σε πτώματα στιγμών, σε σκοτωμένες ώρες που θα τις θάβουμε μέσα μας, μέσα στις σπηλιές του είναι μας, στις σπηλιές όπου γεννιέται η ελευθερία της επιθυμίας, και τις μπαζώνουμε με όλων των ειδών τα σκατά και τα σκουπίδια που μας πασάρουν σαν "αξίες", σαν "ηθική", σαν "πολιτισμό". Κάναμε το σώμα μας ένα απέραντο νεκροταφείο δολοφονημένων επιθυμιών και προσδοκιών, αφήνουμε τα πιο σημαντικά, τα πιο ουσιαστικά πράγματα, όπως να παίξουμε και να χαρούμε μεταξύ μας, να παίξουμε και να χαρούμε με τα παιδιά και τα ζώα, με τα λουλούδια και τα δέντρα, να κάνουμε έρωτα, να απολαύσουμε τη φύση, τις ομορφιές του ανθρώπινου χεριού και του πνεύματος, να κατεβούμε τρυφερά μέσα μας, να γνωρίσουμε τον εαυτό μας και τον διπλανό μας...Όλα, όλα τα αφήνουμε για το αύριο που δε θα 'ρθει ποτέ...
Μόνο όταν ο θάνατος χτυπήσει κάποιο αγαπημένο μας πρόσωπο πονάμε, γιατί συνήθως σκεφτόμαστε πως θέλαμε να του πούμε τόσα σημαντικά πράγματα, όπως πόσο τον αγαπούσαμε, πόσο σημαντικός ήταν για εμάς ... Όμως το αφήσαμε για αύριο ... Για να πάμε που;
Αφού ανατέλλει, δύει ο ήλιος και δεν πάμε πουθενά αλλού, παρά μόνο στο θάνατο, και μεις οι μαλάκες, αντί να κλαίμε το δειλινό που χάθηκε άλλη μια μέρα απ' τη ζωή μας, χαιρόμαστε.
Ξέρεις γιατί;
Γιατί η μέρα μας είναι φορτωμένη με οδύνη, αντί να είναι μια περιπέτεια, μια σύγκρουση με τα όρια της ελευθερίας μας..”
― Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Χαμογέλα, ρε... Τι σου ζητάνε;

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund