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“That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, The Dogs of Christmas

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau