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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Proust Marcel

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Never marry for money. You'll borrow it cheaper.”
― Scottish Proverb

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“I don't know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the most powerful and tender natural attraction, but they pretend to be proud or indifferent and they don't consider, especially if they're young, that the sands of our life have been measured by God unto the last grain and that every carelessly wasted second of love sinks irreversibly into eternity.”
― Angel Wagenstein, Isaac's Torah: A Novel

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
― Ferris Bueller

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Albert Einstein

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Connie Shultz: Our first date was 20 years ago today. We met at a nearly empty chain restaurant and, over candlelight, Sherrod read aloud two typed pages of his favorite quotes, including this one by George Bernard Shaw:
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.”
After he finished reading that one, I pulled out the same quote from my wallet, handwritten on pink paper.
We married 15 months later.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“To begin, begin.”
― William Wordsworth