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  • #1
    W.B. Yeats
    “WINE comes in at the mouth
    And love comes in at the eye;
    That's all we shall know for truth
    Before we grow old and die.
    I lift the glass to my mouth,
    I look at you, and sigh.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #2
    W.B. Yeats
    “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #3
    W.B. Yeats
    “Think where man's glory most begins and ends
    And say my glory was I had such friends.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #9
    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

  • #10
    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

  • #11
    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #12
    Gautama Buddha
    “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
    Buddha

  • #13
    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    Sharon Salzberg

  • #14
    George Washington Carver
    “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
    George Washington Carver

  • #15
    Gautama Buddha
    “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
    Buddha

  • #16
    Gautama Buddha
    “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
    Buddha

  • #17
    Gautama Buddha
    “It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni, The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections

  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #19
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

  • #20
    Gautama Buddha
    “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
    Buddha

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
    kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five



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