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  • #1
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #4
    Richard Paul Evans
    “I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing
    of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time
    to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.
    Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds
    its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty
    and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,
    it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and
    time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to
    find the next real thing.”
    Richard Paul Evans, The Letter
    tags: love

  • #5
    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #6
    Jean-Yves Leloup
    “Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)”
    Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “The Laughing Heart

    your life is your life
    don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
    be on the watch.
    there are ways out.
    there is a light somewhere.
    it may not be much light but
    it beats the darkness.
    be on the watch.
    the gods will offer you chances.
    know them.
    take them.
    you can’t beat death but
    you can beat death in life, sometimes.
    and the more often you learn to do it,
    the more light there will be.
    your life is your life.
    know it while you have it.
    you are marvelous
    the gods wait to delight
    in you.”
    Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
    tags: life

  • #8
    Brian Tracy
    “I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
    chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”
    Brian Tracy

  • #9
    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

  • #10
    Simone Elkeles
    “being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.”
    Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

  • #11
    Carrie Ryan
    “I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will
    make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.”
    Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves

  • #12
    Frances Mayes
    “Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
    Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

  • #13
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
    Robert F. Kennedy

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #15
    Frederick Douglass
    “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #16
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

  • #17
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

  • #18
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #19
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #20
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #21
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #22
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #23
    Walt Disney Company
    “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
    Walt Disney Company

  • #24
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    Walt Disney Company, Mulan

  • #25
    Walt Disney Company
    “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
    Walt Disney

  • #26
    Walt Disney Company
    “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
    Walt Disney

  • #27
    Walt Disney Company
    “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
    Walt Disney

  • #28
    Walt Disney Company
    “No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.”
    Walt Disney Company

  • #29
    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    Walt Disney

  • #30
    Walt Disney Company
    “She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”
    Walt Disney



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