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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“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

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“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

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

“ينضج واحدنا كحبة التمر، ظاهرها ليِّن ونواتها أقسى من أن تلين”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower