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“To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.”
― Daniel Linderman

“Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.”
― Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Comparison is the enemy of happiness,”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous

“And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories [with Biographical Introduction]

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.”
― Tzvetan Todorov