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  • #1
    Nikola Tesla
    “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #2
    RuPaul
    “When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
    RuPaul

  • #3
    “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
    Hafiz

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
    Anais Nin

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #8
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #9
    Sun Tzu
    “To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #10
    Robin Hobb
    “The fight isn't over until you win.”
    Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

  • #11
    Steve Maraboli
    “I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #12
    Mike  Norton
    “Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
    Mike Norton, Fighting For Redemption

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
    John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

  • #14
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #15
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #16
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #19
    Harper Lee
    “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Abraham Lincoln
    “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #22
    “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
    James A. Michener

  • #23
    Heinrich von Kleist
    “But paradise is locked and bolted....
    We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”
    Heinrich von Kleist, On a Theatre of Marionettes

  • #24
    Louis D. Brandeis
    “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
    Louis D. Brandeis

  • #25
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    John Lennon

  • #26
    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #27
    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #28
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #29
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

  • #30
    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    Jim Morrison



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