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“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

“The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.”
― Laotzu, Tao Te Ching

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”
― Christopher Pike, Sati

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
― Paul Tillich

“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
― Ayn Rand

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
― Ayn Rand

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex