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“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)”
― Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Musashi Miyamoto, Book of Five Rings

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”
― Heraclitus

“Nothing endures but change.”
― Heraclitus

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
― Heraclitus

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
― Heraclitus

“Man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“The sun is new each day.”
― Heraclitus

“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”
― Heraclitus

“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
― Grotius Hugo

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― David Hume, On Suicide

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays