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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.”
― Irene Peter

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
― Ludwig Borne

“Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”
― Eric Hoffer

“It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors. They want to retaliate.”
― Eric Hoffer

“When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”
― Eric Hoffer

“We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.     44”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
― Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius