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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Neil Young

“Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one”
― John Lennon, Imagine

“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
― Albert Einstein

“What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
― Henry Van Dyke

“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“چه مهمانان بی دردسری هستند مردگان
نه به دستی ظرفی را چرک میکنند
نه به حرفی دلی را آلوده
تنها به شمعی قانعند
واندکی سکوت......”
― حسین پناهی / Hosein Panaahi

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson