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“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

“When you're young you believe that love is infatuation, but infatuation is simple, any child can become infatuated, fall in love. But real love? Love is a job for an adult. Love demands a whole person, all the best of you, all the worst. It has nothing to do with romance, because the hard part of a marriage isn't that I have to live seeing all your faults, but that you have to live with me seeing them. That I know everything about you now. Most people aren't brave enough to live without secrets. Everyone dreams about being invisible sometimes, no one dreams of being transparent.

Marriage? There ought to be a different word for it after a while. Because there's no such thing as 'eternal infatuation,' only love lasts that long, and it's never simple. It requires a whole person, everything you have. The whole lot.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“and he said: you pretty full of yourself ain’t chu
so she replied: show me someone
not full of herself
and i’ll show you a hungry person”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ”
― Lucille Ball

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.”
― David Hume

“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.”
― A.S.A. Harrison, The Silent Wife

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Natural

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
― H. L. Mencken

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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln