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  • #2
    Max Ehrmann
    “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
    Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

  • #3
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #4
    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #5
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #6
    Woody Guthrie
    “Take it easy, but take it.”
    Woody Guthrie

  • #7
    D.H. Lawrence
    “When along the pavement,
    Palpitating flames of life,
    People flicker around me,
    I forget my bereavement,
    The gap in the great constellation,
    The place where a star used to be”
    D. H. Lawrence

  • #8
    Lou Holtz
    “Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #9
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #14
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #16
    Heather O'Neill
    “Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”
    Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

  • #17
    Heather O'Neill
    “From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
    Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

  • #18
    Heather O'Neill
    “Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.”
    Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with potential.
    You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
    You were born with wings.
    You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
    You have wings.
    Learn to use them and fly.”
    Rumi

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Scott Stratten
    “Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”
    Scott Stratten, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #23
    Jim Morrison
    “Where's your will to be weird?”
    Jim Morrison

  • #24
    Bob Dylan
    “Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #25
    Bob Dylan
    “look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...”
    Bob Dylan, Tarantula

  • #26
    Bob Dylan
    “aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets”
    Bob Dylan, Tarantula

  • #27
    Tupac Shakur
    “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #28
    Tupac Shakur
    “There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
    that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
    But through whatever you see,
    through all the rain and the pain,
    you gotta keep your sense of humor.
    You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
    Remember that.”
    Tupac Shakur
    tags: life

  • #29
    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #30
    Miller Williams
    “Wherever it left us,
    we were barely learning to live with it
    when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams
    to tell us that no one has ever been loved
    the way everybody wants to be loved,
    and that's hard. That's hard.

    --last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand”
    Miller Williams, Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems

  • #31
    Irina Serban
    “The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.”
    Irina Serban, Full Circle



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