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“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“Ό,τι δεν συνέβη ποτέ, είναι ό,τι δεν ποθήσαμε αρκετά.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Our thoughts make us what we are.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Ο ελεύθερος άνθρωπος που γνωρίζει τον εαυτό του είναι γενναιόδωρος, αλληλέγγυος, ευγενικός και ικανοποιείται εξίσου όταν δίνει όπως και όταν παίρνει. Γι'αυτό, κάθε φορά που συναντάς ανθρώπους που κοιτάζουν μόνο την πάρτη τους, μην τους μισείς. Αρκετά προβλήματα έχουν με τον εαυτό τους.”
― Jorge Bucay, Déjame que te cuente

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar