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  • #32
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    Robert Frost

  • #33
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #34
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #35
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    Terry Johnson, Insignificance

  • #36
    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #37
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    George Carlin

  • #38
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #39
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #40
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #41
    Cassandra Clare
    “Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
    "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #42
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #43
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #44
    John Knowles
    “You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”
    John Knowles, A Separate Peace

  • #45
    Jocelyn Davies
    “I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.”
    Jocelyn Davies, A Fractured Light

  • #46
    Horatius
    “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
    Horace

  • #47
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #48
    Nelson Mandela
    “Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #49
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #50
    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #51
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

    - I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
    - I shall fear only God.
    - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
    - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
    - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #52
    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #53
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #54
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #55
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #56
    Augustine of Hippo
    “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
    St. Augustine

  • #57
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #58
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
    Saint Augustine

  • #59
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Love is the beauty of the soul”
    Saint Augustine of Hippo

  • #60
    Augustine of Hippo
    “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
    Saint Augustine

  • #61
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness”
    Saint Augustine



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