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“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

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

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

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

“...she still wears her arrogance like armour...”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.”
― Imam Ali

“Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow”
― Imam Ali

“Silence is the best reply to a fool.”
― Imam Ali

“People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil”
― Imam Ali as

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

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

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted-mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted—mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“"He's your first love. I intend to be your last, however long it takes."”
― Klaus Mikaelson

“One never forgets the taste of certain tears...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
― William Shakespeare

“I continue to train. The depths still beckon me. On that dive in 2016, when I turned 102 metres down, although my eyes were closed I could feel the pull of untold volumes of water yet below me. What am I still chasing, one might ask, in that submerged realm? Shakespeare spoke of the lure of ‘unpathed waters, undreamed shores’. If George Mallory, who perished somewhere near the summit of Everest in 1924, had been a freediver, he would have justified himself with the words ‘because it’s everywhere’. My first teacher, Umberto Pelizzari, dived to ‘look inside’. These concepts have all rung true for me, too. As did the insight of the elderly Bahamian lady who was asked why she thought I dived, and replied: ‘He wants to see what he is.’ I don’t have to go deep — sometimes I dive just to be, as Mervyn Peake says, ‘at one with every swarm of lime-green fish, with every coloured sponge’. Long after my final record or my final competition dive, I will continue to frequent that ‘world of wavering light’ where it all began, for me and for life as we know it. I dive to go home.”
― William Trubridge, Oxygen: A Memoir

“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“But then it passed, as all things do.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin