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  • #1
    Ian McEwan
    “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #2
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #3
    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    Saul Bellow, Herzog

  • #4
    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    John Updike

  • #5
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
    Rumi

  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

  • #8
    Warren Buffett
    “I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”
    Warren Buffett

  • #9
    J. Krishnamurti
    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #10
    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #11
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #12
    J. Krishnamurti
    “Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
    J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

  • #13
    J. Krishnamurti
    “If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
    Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #15
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #16
    Roy T. Bennett
    “No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #17
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #18
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #19
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #20
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    Howard Thurman



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