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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The problem with most people is that their problems
aren’t big enough.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms

“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”
― Walter Isaacson

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― Albert Einstein

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
― Albert Einstein

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― Albert Einstein

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”
― Albert Einstein

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
― Albert Einstein

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar