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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.”
― Kristopher Jansma, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

“Life is a series of saying "yes" and "no." The important part is knowing when to say which.”
― Cole NeSmith

“The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.”
― Mark W. Boyer, Resumes 101: Get in Step

“Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problems is someone else.”
― Darlene Ouimet

“But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.”
― S.J. Bolton, Dead Scared

“It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell