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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
    Vince Lombardi

  • #4
    Tennessee Williams
    “When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
    Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

  • #5
    Craig Ferguson
    “The Universe is very, very big.
    It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
    Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.
    Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

    Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
    Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

  • #6
    Carl R. Rogers
    “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
    Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

  • #7
    “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
    Tony Schwartz

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    Stephen        King
    “Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
    Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

  • #11
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #12
    Nicole Krauss
    “Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?"
    "Of course, darling. Come here."
    I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say.
    "I need you to be --" I said, and then I started to cry.
    "Be what?" she said, opening her arms.
    "Not sad," I said.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #13
    Erica Jong
    “And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
    Erica Jong

  • #14
    Yogi Berra
    “I never said most of the things I said.”
    Yogi Berra

  • #15
    Yogi Berra
    “Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
    Yogi Berra

  • #16
    Sam Harris
    “If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
    Sam Harris

  • #17
    Charles Baudelaire
    “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
    Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

  • #18
    “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
    Unknown - attributed to Mark Twain by Normand Baillargeon



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