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“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“मैं देवता की तरह क़ैद अपने मंदिर में; वो मेरे जिस्म से बाहर मेरी तलाश में है।”
― Krishna Bihari Noor, Aaj ke Prasidh Shayar - Krishna Bihari 'Noor'

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
― Ron Paul

“A wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird?”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Humility, kindness, and empathy will bring you more respect than horsepower ever will.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Collective madness is called sanity ..”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“पहले भी जीते थे मगर जब से मिली है ज़िन्दगी सीधी नहीं है दूर तक उलझी हुई है ज़िन्दगी इक आँख से रोती है ये, इक आँख से हँसती है ये जैसी दिखाई दे जिसे उसकी वही है ज़िन्दगी जो पाये वो खोये उसे, जो खोये वो रोये उसे यूँ तो सभी के पास है किसकी हुई है ज़िन्दगी हर रास्ता अनजान-सा हर फ़लसफ़ा नादान-सा सदियों पुरानी है मगर हर दिन नयी है ज़िन्दगी अच्छी-भली थी दूर से जब पास आयी खो गयी जिसमें न आये कुछ नज़र वो रोशनी है ज़िन्दगी मिट्टी हवा लेकर उड़ी घूमी फिरी वापस मुड़ी क़ब्रों पे कतबों1 की तरह लिक्खी हुई है ज़िन्दगी”
― Nida Fazli, Duniya Jise Kahte Hain

“in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire