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“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late and you work hard; those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway; that is actually the dream. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
― Kobe Bryant

“I like the Walrus best,' said Alice: `because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.'

`He ate more than the Carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee. `You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.'

`That was mean!' Alice said indignantly. `Then I like the Carpenter best--if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.'

`But he ate as many as he could get,' said Tweedledum.

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, `Well! They were both very unpleasant characters--”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

“Let the first impulse pass. Wait for the second.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
― Lao Tzu

“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.”
― Zig Ziglar

“To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to it later (despite not having the discipline now).”
― Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“From the outside, you seem mature with a philosopher's mind. But inside, you're just a child lost in a sweet delusion.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky