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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #5
    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    George Harrison

  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #7
    John Irving
    “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #8
    John Irving
    “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #9
    John Irving
    “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #10
    John Irving
    “The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #11
    Bill Cosby
    “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
    Bill Cosby

  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #13
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #14
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “Conflict cannot survive without your participation”
    Wayne W. Dyer

  • #15
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
    Wayne W. Dyer

  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #17
    Walter  Scott
    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
    Walter Scott, Marmion

  • #18
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #19
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    Anne Bradstreet

  • #20
    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    Paul Simon

  • #21
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #22
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #23
    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #24
    Evinda Lepins
    “Complaining opens the door to conflict and thankfulness slams it shut!”
    Evinda Lepins, Back to Single

  • #25
    Lou Holtz
    “Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

  • #27
    Charles Dickens
    “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #29
    Evelyn Waugh
    “It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #30
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia



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