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“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― Johnny Depp

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.”
― Jenny Holzer

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved”
― Freud

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
― Carl Jung

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart