Wise thoughts and quotes
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been".
Kurt Vonnegut
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
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I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
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You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
Paulo Coelho
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
