Read them, think about what they mean, get a whole new perspective on things.
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
- Richard Dawkins
"Once the game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb
"Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel."
- Bedouin Proverb
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. "
- Dr. Seuss :D
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Unknown
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than whose who think differently."
- Nietzsche
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
- Richard Dawkins
"Once the game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb
"Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel."
- Bedouin Proverb
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. "
- Dr. Seuss :D
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Unknown
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than whose who think differently."
- Nietzsche
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know", Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?"
- Alice in Wonderland, LEWIS CARROLL
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
-Mark Twain
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
-Carl Sagan
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