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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #3
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #8
    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E.B. White

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #14
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    Voltaire

  • #17
    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    Voltaire

  • #18
    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    Voltaire

  • #19
    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    Voltaire

  • #20
    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    Voltaire

  • #22
    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    Voltaire
    tags: food

  • #23
    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    Voltaire

  • #24
    Voltaire
    “The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
    Voltaire

  • #25
    Voltaire
    “You're a bitter man," said Candide.
    That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
    Voltaire, Candide

  • #26
    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    Voltaire, Candide

  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
    Voltaire

  • #28
    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    Voltaire

  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
    Voltaire

  • #30
    Voltaire
    “Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
    Voltaire



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