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  • #1
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #2
    “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
    Angela Schwindt

  • #3
    Tom Robbins
    “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #4
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Only the children know what they are looking for.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: How long is forever?
    White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #6
    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    Heraclitus, Fragments

  • #7
    Milan Kundera
    “And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #11
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #12
    Milan Kundera
    “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #13
    Milan Kundera
    “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #14
    Milan Kundera
    “A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #15
    Milan Kundera
    “She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

    The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #16
    Milan Kundera
    “There is no perfection only life”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #17
    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #18
    Milan Kundera
    “The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #19
    Milan Kundera
    “The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #20
    Milan Kundera
    “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #21
    Milan Kundera
    “Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #22
    Milan Kundera
    “A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. ”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #23
    Milan Kundera
    “Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #25
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #26
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no
    longer interested in anything but figures..”
    saint exupery, The Little Prince

  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #29
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.
    - In order to forget - replied the drunkard.
    - To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.
    - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.
    - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.
    - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.
    And the little prince went away, puzzled.
    'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #30
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    Margaret Mead



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