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“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
― Woody Allen

“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. it is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more”
― Woody Allen

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
― Woody Allen

“I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.”
― Woody Allen

“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”
― Woody Allen

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.”
― Albert Nolan, Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom

“Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome. That detachment allows you to stop fighting and allows things to just come to you; you no longer make things happen but allow them to show up. The fight is gone!”
― Wayne W. Dyer, The Shift

“Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?”
― Voltaire

“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
― Voltaire

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe