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”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
”Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” – Virginia Woolf
”There's nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams
”It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne
”The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
”One's first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
”He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” – Benjamin Franklin
”The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
”It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
”I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” – Mark Twain
”Happy the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.” – Seneca
”You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” – Vernon Howard
”Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” – Ben Hecht
”We follow dogma so that we can belong and be right, or we follow reason so we can belong and be right.”
”Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
”Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.” – Peter McArthur
”Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis
”Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.” – Eric Hoffer
”We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut
”When you're through changing, you're through.” – Bruce Barton
”Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
”Only the closed mind is certain.”
”Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
”When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
”Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
”Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” – Bob Marley
”Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.” – Lao Tzu
”I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
”My craziness is working. How's your sanity doing?” – Carlos Santana
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