December 2011
90 posts
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“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment....”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against...”
– William Faulkner
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
– Khalil Gibran
“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that...”
– Tamora Pierce, Trickster’s Choice
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming...”
– Marcel Proust
“Killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder.”
– Albert Einstein
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“With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by...”
– Samuel Butler
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“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch...”
– Albert Einstein
“If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.”
– James Frey
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
– Albert Camus
“Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have...”
– Chinese Proverb
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon, The Essays
“The best advice I ever heard is, don’t take anyone else’s advice.”
– Eddie Murphy
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money...”
– Maya Angelou
“The thing about quotes on the internet is that you never know if they’re legit.”
– Socrates
I admit, I laughed.
(via thelittlephilosopher)
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his word and...”
– Nikola Tesla
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter....”
– Joanne Harris
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill
“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...”
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning
“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
–
Larissa Szporluk, Sea Lettuce
“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
– Larissa Szporluk, Sea Lettuce
“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
– Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
“Don’t learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.”
– Anonymous
“Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.”
– John Churton Collins
“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our...”
– Fred Rogers
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from...”
– John C. Maxwell
“Let us never negotiate out of fear.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its...”
– Mary Engelbreit
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“When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it...”
– Albert Einstein, on his wife on their fiftieth wedding anniversary
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“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a...”
– Aphra Behn
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“You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in...”
– Mitch Albom
“Well done is better than well said.”
– Ben Franklin
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“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other...”
– e.e.cummings
“The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who...”
– E.J.Hobsbawm
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true....”
– Milan Kundera
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“They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did...”
– William Shakespeare
“Pay attention to the whispers, so we won’t have to listen to the screams.”
– Cherokee Proverb
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“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn...”
– Malcolm X
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– Derrick Jensen
“It is often in the darkest
skies that we see the
brightest stars.”
– Richard Evans
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“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our...”
– John Green
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“I am my own heaven and hell.”
– J.C.F. Von Schiller 