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

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires.”
― Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

“As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE”
― Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”
― tom wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Music is part of being human.”
― Oliver W. Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“თავისუფლებამ კი არ მოგვიტანა ამდენი სიბინძურე, თავისუფლებამ გამოაჩინა მონობაში დაგროვებული. (გნებავთ შეძენილი!)”
― Otar Chiladze

“ადამიანი ჩვენგან გაკიცხვას კი არ იმსახურებს, არამედ თანაგრძნობას; აი, ერთადერთი, რისი თქმაც შემიძლია: უნდა თანავუგრძნოთ ყველას!”
― ოთარ ჭილაძე (Otar Chiladze)