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“And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one positively ought (that is my idea).”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“But before any of those, there is another precious thing that presents itself before any man. That is, a dream you must fulfill for yourself and not for anybody else. Some dream of ruling the world. Some devote their entire lives to honing their swordsmanship. Some dreams are pursued alone, while other dreams devour the dreams of thousands or tens of thousands, like a storm. Dreams push them forward, dreams make them suffer. Dreams keep them alive, dreams lead to their death. And after they're abandoned by their dreams, it continues to smolder in their hearts. Every man has envisioned living a life like that at least once. To be martyred for his god, his dream. Simply going through the motions of life because you were born - I will never be able to stand that kind of life.”
― Griffith (Berserk)

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Now look: if instead of a palace there is a chicken coop, and it starts to rain, I will perhaps get into the chicken coop to avoid a wetting, but all the same I will not take the chicken coop for a palace out of gratitude for its having kept me from the rain. You laugh, you even say that in that case it makes no difference - chicken coop or mansion. Yes, say I, if one were to live only so as not to get wet.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”
― Napoleon Hill

“Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.”
― Epictetus

“The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword

“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
― Albert Einstein

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space