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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #2
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #5
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #7
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #8
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #9
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #10
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #14
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #15
    Lauren Oliver
    “It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #16
    Jay Kristoff
    “It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.”
    Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer

  • #17
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Everything is hard before it is easy”
    Goethe J.W.

  • #18
    David Nicholls
    “Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #19
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #21
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #22
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #25
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

  • #26
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #27
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #28
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #29
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #30
    عزالدين شكري فشير
    “دائما ما تأتى الأمور مختلطة: الإحباط والتحقق، الشكوك والإيمان، البرودة والسعادة، ولا يمكنك الفصل بينهم واختيار جانب واحد. لا يحدث هذا إلا فى قصص الأطفال.”
    عزالدين شكري فشير, باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة

  • #31
    Euripides
    “The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
    Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
    Euripides, Medea and Other Plays



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