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“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
― Anais Nin

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

“I can connect
Nothing with nothing”
― T.S. Eliot

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― Joan of Arc

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
― Duc De La Francois Rochefoucauld

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
― Anatole France

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
― Anatole France

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory