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My life is my message.

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~Mahatma Gandhi

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

~Groucho Marx

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in other people's lives.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night)

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing is more real than nothing.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

~Friedrich Nietzshe

I've looked at love

from both sides now

From give and take 

and still somehow

It's love's illusions

I recall

I really don't know love at all

~Joni Mitchell

(from Both Sides Now)

Life's a piece of shit when you look at it

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true

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You'll see it's all a show 

keep 'em laughing as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you

~Monty Python

(from Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

~Socrates

Sometimes the feelings inside me get messy like dirt. And I like to clean things, pretend the dirt is the feelings, and this floor is my mind . . . You gotta start from the inside out, or else you'll step on the clean.

~Crazy Eyes (from Orange Is The New Black)

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

~Albert Camus

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

~J. D. Salinger (from Franny and Zooey)

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
 

~Soren Kierkegaard

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

~1 Corinthians 1:21

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

~Albert Camus

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

~Marcel Proust

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

~Soren Kierkegaard

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble too neglect

Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect

Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow

Ah, but I was so much older then

I'm younger than that now

~Bob Dylan (from My Back Pages)

If you're going through hell, keep going.

~Winston Churchill

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

~Arundhati Roy (from The God Of Small Things)

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

~W. C. Fields

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

~Groucho Marx

(When confronted with the question, “What is the purpose of life?”) To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

~Kurt Vonnegut

(from Breakfast of Champions)

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~Dalai Lama

Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you—with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities.

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~Kristin Neff

There is a time to admire the grace and persuasive power of an influential idea, and there is a time to fear its hold over us. The time to worry is when the idea is so widely shared that we no longer even notice it, when it is so deeply rooted that it feels to us like plain common sense. At the point when objections are not answered anymore because they are no longer even raised, we are not in control: we do not have the idea; it has us.

~Alfie Kohn

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

~Albert Einstein