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“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Each day is a little life.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“Hunger not to have, but to be”
― John Dewey

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
― John Dewey

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”
― John Dewey

“The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

“A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
― Carl R. Rogers

“Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist”
― C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“P3- neither the life of an individual nor the history off a society can be understood without understanding both”
― C.Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may be called the sociological imagination.”
― C.Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secreat understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but power to endure, and they can take a joke.”
― E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
― Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within

“Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown”
― Osho