Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul ― let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and aesthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin! ~ Salvador Dalí #quote
Intelligence is not a science. ~ Frank Carlucci #quote
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #quote, Invisible Monsters
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. ~ Joseph Murphy #quote
Before you quit, try. ~ Ernest Hemingway #Quote
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~ Joan Baez #Quote
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship earth 🌎 successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller #Quote
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? ~ Unknown #Quote
A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability – if you try even a little bit – to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. ~ Abraham-Hicks #quote
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #quote, Invisible Monsters
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~ Robert Brault #quote
Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form…to do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations.~ Neville. #quote
The wages of sin are unreported. #TheIRSheadacheLaw
When you are in love and you get hurt, it is like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar. ~ Anonymous #quote
It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods. ~ Jacob Bronowski #quote
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ~ Rudyard Kipling #quote
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honours on your head. ~ Jean Cocteau #quote
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. ~ Doris Lessing #quote
I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!' ~ Bruce Baum #quote
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features. ~ Bob Dylan #quote, Jokerman
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. ~ Alfred North Whitehead #quote
Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself—rather than the statement—has been challenged? ~ Peter David #quote
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ~ Javan #quote
Your heart is my piñata. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #quote
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri #quote
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. ~ Montaigne #quote
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ~ Boris Pasternak #quote
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ~ Soren Kierkegaard #quote
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. #quote
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~ Friedrich Richter #quote
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it. ~ Life Lessons from a 90 Year Old #quote
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 #quote
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. ~ Charles Swindoll #quote
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. ~ Nick Diamos #quote
Bare feet magnetize sharp objects so that they always point upward from the floor-especially in the dark. #Ross'sLaw
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #quote
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ~ George Bernard Shaw #quote
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. ~ Goethe #quote
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ~ Richard Bach #Quote
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~ Elbert Hubbard #Quote
Deep in earth 🌎 my love is lying And I must weep alone. ~ Edgar Allan Poe #Quote
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 #quote
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain #Quote
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~ Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless #Quote
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ~ Haruki Murakami #quote
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~ Robert Brault #quote
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~ G.C. Lichtenberg #Quote
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ~ Lord Chesterfield #Quote
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake #quote
Music is not just wallpaper. It helps us define our situations to an extent, and allows us the comfort of knowing that not only are our emotions shared by others, but sometimes by others who are talented enough to put them to word and song in a way that we ourselves are not able to. They are in a sense our 'shaman' our 'storyteller'. I truly believe the music we listen to is a good gauge of defining who we are and what we believe. ~ Kaitlin #quote
The art of life is to sustain the feeling of the wish fulfilled and let things come to you, not to go after them or think they flee away. ~ Neville #quote
Forgive but don’t forget. ~ Life Lessons from a 90 Year Old #quote
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. ~ Steve Jobs #quote
There are no random acts…We are all connected…You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind… ~ Mitch Albom #quote
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