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“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.”
― Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table

“The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.”
― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

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

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi