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“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John