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“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
― Steve Jobs

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

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

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

“میان آفتاب های همیشه
زیبائی تو
لنگری ست -
نگاهت شکست ستمگری ست -
و چشمانت با من گفتند
که فردا
روز دیگری ست
”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamloo

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“اگر تکه ای از زندگی می ماند کمتر می خوابیدم و بیشتر رویا می دیدم چون می دانستم هر دقیقه که چشمهایمان را بر هم می گذاریم ۶۰ ثانیه نور را از دست می دهیم .هنگامی که دیگران می ایستند من راه می رفتم و هنگامی که دیگران می خوابیدند بیدار می ماندم.
هنگامی که دیگران صحبت می کردند گوش می دادم و از خوردن یک بستنی لذت می بردم. اگر تکه ای زندگی به من ارزانی می شد لباسی ساده بر تن می کردم نخست به خورشید چشم می دوختم وسپس روحم را عریان می کردم. اگر دل در سینه ام همچنان می تپید؛ نفرتم را بر یخ می نوشتم وطلوع آفتاب را انتظار می کشیدم...!”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy