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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."

He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Being crazy isn't enough.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
― Dr. Seuss

“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“The key to wisdom is doubt!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums

“Душевному здоровью принято уделять гораздо меньше внимания, чем здоровью физическому. Если человеку внезапно станет плохо, или он потеряет сознание, он не удовлетворится тем, что ему полегчало, или что сознание вернулось к нему. Он сходит к врачу для подробного обследования. Вместе с тем среди нас находятся душевно больные люди, которые обиделись бы, если бы вы посоветовали им лечиться. Никто не обидится, если ему скажут, что у него плохое кровообращение, и он должен в связи с этим делать то-то и то-то. Дело в том, что люди часто путают понятия „психически нездоровый“ и „сумасшедший“. Это грубая ошибка. Сумасшествие — это уже душевная смерть, и только в таких случаях признавать, что не все в порядке — это бессмыслица.
Другой нелепостью является наличие какого-то непонятного стыда, если душевной или нервной болезнью заболевает сравнительно молодой человек. Доктор Влах помнит случай, когда начальник одного управления отказался предоставить отпуск молодому сотруднику сказав ему при этом: „Неврастения в вашем возрасте? Как вам не стыдно!“ Этому господину и в голову не пришло бы кому-нибудь сказать: „Аппендицит в вашем возрасте? Как вам не стыдно!“ И все же оба вопроса одинаково глупы.”
― Zdeněk Jirotka

“Від міліції тікають навіть гангстери та мафіозі. А мені і сам Бог велів.”
― Юрій Винничук, Діви ночі