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No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became
sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure
from a change for the worse.
Become the light.

—Rumi




“The one who follows the crowd
will usually get no further than
the crowd itself. The one who
walks alone is likely to find himself in places no-one else has
ever been.”

—Albert Einstein




“The earlier you learn that
you should focus on what
you have, and not obsess
about what you don’t have,
the happier you will be.”
—Amy Poehler




What is more foolish
Than those who value objects
More than life itself;
Perhaps even real gold
Is fools gold
In the end.

—Takuan Soho




“Show me the most damaged parts of your soul,
and I will show you how
it still shines like gold.”
—Nikita Gill




“Conflict cannot
survive without
your
participation.”
—Wayne Dyer




“You need power only when
you want to do something
harmful, otherwise love is
enough to get everything done.”
—Charlie Chaplin




“You will never be able
to experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
—Albert Camus




“If someone does not
want me, it is not the end
of the world. But if I do
not want me, the world is
nothing but endings.”
—Nayyirah Waheed




“It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society.”
—Jiddu Krishnamurti




“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the
courage to continue that
counts.”
—Winston Churchill




“Think higher. Live
deeper.”
—Elie Wiesel




“Consistency is the
last refuge for the
unimaginative.”
—Oscar Wilde




I and the public know
What all schoolchildren
learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
—W.H. Auden




“A calm and modest life brings
more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with
constant restlessness.”
—Albert Einstein




“All truths are easy to
understand once they
are discovered; the point
is to discover them.”
—Galileo Galilei




“Those who do not
move do not notice
their chains.”
—Rose Luxemburg




“The wound is the
place where the light
enters you.”
—Rumi




“Call for the grandest of
all earthly spectacles,
what is that? It is the
sun going to his rest.”
—Thomas de Quincey




“Good ideas have
no borders.”
—Thomas Friedman




“Caring for myself is not
self-indulgence, it is selfpreservation, and that is
an act of political warfare.”
—Audre Lord




“Always forgive
your enemies;
nothing annoys
them so much.”
—Oscar Wilde




“Art should comfort
the disturbed and
disturb the
comfortable.”
—Banksy




“No great mind has existed without a touch of
madness.”
—Aristotle




“The more clouds you
have in your sky, the
more colorful sunset it
will be.”
—Sajal Sazzad




“We may encounter
many defeats but
we must not be
defeated. ”
—Maya Angelou




“Nearly all men can withstand
adversity, but if you want to
test a man’s character, give him
power.”

—Abraham Lincoln




“To the world you
may be one person
but to one person you
may be the world”
—Dr. Seuss




“The opposite of love is not hate,
it’s indifference. The opposite of
art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not
heresy, it’s indifference. And the
opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

—Elie Wiesel




“Surround yourself with the
dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of
all surround yourself with those
who see greatness within you.”
—Edmund Lee




“Do the best you can
until you know better.
Then, when you know
better, do better.”
—Maya Angelou




“Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it, doesn’t
go away.”
—Phillip K Dick




“Never discourage
anyone who continually
makes progress, no
matter how slow.”
—Plato




“Don’t treat people
as bad as they are.
Treat them as good
as you are.”
—Luminita D. Saviuc




“Your pain is breaking
the shell that encloses
your understanding.”
—Kahlil Gibran




“You can’t stop
the waves, but you
can learn to surf.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn




“Happiness always looks
small while you hold it in
your hands, but let it go,
and you learn at once
how big and precious it is.”
—Maxim Gorky




“When the going
gets tough, the
tough re-invent.”
—RuPaul




“I would always rather
be happy than
dignified.”
—Charlotte Bronté




“Promise me you’ll always
remember: You’re braver
than you believe, and
stronger than you seem, and
smarter than you think.”
—A. A. Milne




“By three methods we may
learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second,
by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which
is the bitterest.”

—Confucius




“Rise above the
storm and you will
find the sunshine.”
—Bram Stoker




“Life is a comedy to those
who think, a tragedy to
those who feel.”
—Jean Racine




“Judge a man by his
questions rather
than by his
answers.”
—Voltaire




“Excellence is never an accident.
It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents
the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not change, determines your destiny.”

—Aristotle




“You cannot do all the
good the world needs
but the world needs all
the good you can do.”
—Jana Stanfield




“The greatest things in life
come from shining a light
on your own darkness. It is
the only way to shrink the
monsters who live there.”
—Kelly Cutrone




“When the stranger says, ‘What is the meaning of this city?’ ‘Do you huddle close together because you love each other?’ What
will you answer? ‘We all dwell together to
make money from each other?’ Or ‘This is
a community.’ Oh my soul, be prepared for
the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for
him who knows how to ask questions.”

—T.S. Eliot




“You have your way. I have
my way. As for the right way,
the correct way, and the only
way, it does not exist.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche




“The reason people find it so
hard to be happy is that they
always see the past better than
it was, the present worse than
it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

—Lao Tzu




“Be kinder to
yourself. And then
let your kindness
flood the world.”
—Pema Chödrön