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  • #1
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #2
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #3
    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #5
    Gautama Buddha
    “Be your own lamp.”
    Buddha

  • #6
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    Epictetus

  • #8
    Confucius
    “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.”
    Confucious

  • #9
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
    Robert Frost

  • #11
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #12
    James Joyce
    “...like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #13
    W.B. Yeats
    “And no more turn aside and brood
    Upon love's bitter mystery;”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “More mud, more crocodiles.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #15
    James Joyce
    “It is their segnall for old Champelysied to seek the shades of his retirement and for young Chappielassies to tear a round and tease their partners lovesoftfun at Finnegan's Wake.”
    James Joyce

  • #16
    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    H.L. Mencken
    “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #20
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #21
    Lanford Wilson
    “After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realised that there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.”
    Lanford Wilson, Fifth of July

  • #22
    Anthony Powell
    “Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #23
    Epictetus
    “People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
    Epictetus, Enchiridion

  • #24
    Plutarch
    “A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.”
    Plutarch
    tags: mind

  • #25
    Augustine of Hippo
    “God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ”
    St. Augustine

  • #26
    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

  • #27
    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, 'ÉٰԲ

  • #29
    James Joyce
    “They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
    James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

  • #30
    James Joyce
    “...imagine it drinking electricity...”
    James Joyce, Ulysses



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