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Three things matter – Unknown

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

– Unknown

Friends – Oscar Wilde

“True friends stab you in the front.”

– Oscar Wilde

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Ploughing fields – Unknown

“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

– Unknown.

Happy ending ― Orson Welles

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

― Orson Welles

Love – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“How I worship at my own altar since I know that she loves me!”

– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Past, future – Zadie Smith

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

– Zadie Smith

From scratch – Carl Sagan

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.”

– Carl Sagan

Dust – @eidolonhex

“Dust is made mostly of us, so perhaps that is why it chooses to settle.”

– @eidolonhex

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Guided missiles, misguided men – Martin Luther King, Jr

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone knows something – Bill Nye

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

– Bill Nye

Life and death – Tagore

“A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.

Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame,
but the living the immortality of love.

Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation into a
harmony with the whole.

Life, like a child, laughs,
shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

– Tagore

 

You are capable – Nelson Mandela

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

― Nelson Mandela

Head, Heart – Nelson Mandela

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

– Nelson Mandela

Little things – Augustine of Hippo

“You aspire to do great things? Begin with little ones.”

– Augustine of Hippo

Decisions – Maimonides

“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”

– Maimonides