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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
― Pierre Corneille

“All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.”
― Frewin Jones, The Lost Queen

“What would love be without secrecy? What would love be without risk?”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
― Jack Kerouac

“beautiful insane
in the rain”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
― Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters, 1940-1956

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”
― Kerouac, Jack

“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Pretty girls make graves”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“Bein Crazy
is the least of my worries.”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Blues

“America is a lonely crock of shit...”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream