"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu

"The most sophisticated people I know — inside they are all children. ” ― Jim Henson

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.” —Alden Nowlan

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"Memory is punishment." - Frank Birdart

"Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him." —Søren Kierkegaard

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

"We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss." - Paulo Coelho

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

'A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.' - G.K. Chesterton

"The the difference between movies and rock 'n' roll is that rock 'n' roll doesn't lie. It never promises a happy ending." - Elliott Murphy

"Not making a decision is still a decision, usually a bad one."

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." — Madam C.J. Walker

“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

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" —Henry David Thoreau

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." —Douglas Adams

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.” -Linda Hogan (1995)

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.“ - William Blake