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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Ocean Vuong
    “tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #6
    Robin  Williams
    “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
    Robin Williams

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    Charles Baudelaire
    “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #11
    William Gibson
    “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
    William Gibson

  • #12
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #13
    “I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.”
    Robert Redford

  • #14
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #15
    Pierre Schoendoerffer
    “Görüyorsunuz, erkekler bir şeyin üzerine işemekten hoşlanırlar-aslında köpekler gibi.”
    Pierre Schoendoerffer, Yukarıda

  • #16
    Chingiz Aitmatov
    “Demiri nasıl tavında dövmek gerekiyorsa, çekiç darbelerini nasıl soğutmadan indirmek gerekiyorsa her kelimeyi de öyle tam zamanında söylemek gerekiyordu. O anı geçince söz soğuyor, katılaşıyor, insanın yüreğine taş gibi oturuyor ve bu ağırlığı kaldırıp atmak hiç de kolay olmuyordu.”
    Chingiz Aitmatov, Toprak Ana

  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #18
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #19
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    Marvin Bell

  • #20
    Plato
    “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
    Plato

  • #21
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • #22
    Tom Waits
    “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
    We are monkeys with money and guns.”
    Tom Waits

  • #23
    Tom Waits
    “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
    Tom Waits

  • #24
    Tom Waits
    “I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.”
    Tom Waits

  • #25
    Tom Waits
    “Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”
    tom waits

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #28
    Agatha Christie
    “Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
    Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

  • #29
    Agatha Christie
    “People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
    Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “Fear is incomplete knowledge”
    Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End



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