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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

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

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between