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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Values are not arbitrary. They are reverse-engineered from the future you seek to build.”
― Anand Gandhi

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Those who cannot acknowledge their true self eventually fail.”
― Itachi Uchiha - Naruto Shippuuden

“I won’t put myself above you and tell you this and that, it’s too late. So this time, for once, let me tell you one small truth. It’s all right if you never forgive me, but no matter what you become, I will always love you.”
― Itachi Uchiha - Naruto Shippuuden

“No matter how powerful you become, do not try to shoulder everything alone.”
― Itachi Uchiha - Naruto Shippuuden

“If you lie to yourself, how can you have friends or be trustworthy? In the end, all these lies will keep you from seeing your true self.”
― Itachi Uchiha - Naruto Shippuuden

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
― Roald Dahl, The Witches

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”
― Roald Dahl

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
― Roald Dahl

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
― Ronald Dahl

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
― Roald Dahl

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara