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“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes