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  • #1
    Alfred Adler
    “The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
    ― Alfred Adler

  • #2
    Alfred Adler
    “Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”
    ― Alfred Adler

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous

  • #8
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #9
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard

  • #14
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa

  • #16
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock

  • #17
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates

  • #18
    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus

  • #20
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
    We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • #23
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus

  • #24
    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #26
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus

  • #27
    George Orwell
    “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

  • #28
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

  • #29
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

  • #30
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
    If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life



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