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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”
― Lewis Carroll

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

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

“Hate's a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So what's the point?”
― Stuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then”
― Kobayashi Issa, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”
― Ani DiFranco

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Beauty without expression is boring.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson