“The person who reads will have lived 5000 years. He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite. Reading is immortality going backwards”.
– Umberto Eco
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May you live – Jonathan Swift
“May you live every day of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift
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Infinite possibility – Walt Whitman
“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”
– Walt Whitman
“People are a product of their environment
Lists like this often claim that ‘people are inherently kind’ or ‘people are inherently the same’. I’m not sure this is true. I believe that people are a product of their environment, which means that some people are kind and some are not.
I would like to believe in a universal good that binds us all together, but I don’t think this is true. Perhaps if each of us were raised in a vacuum, we would have equally pure moral values and impulses, but we are not and I don’t believe we do.”
– Kia Abdullah
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Anxiety – Alan Watts
“No amount of anxiety will make any difference to what is going to happen.”
– Alan Watts
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Be weak – Pete Greig
“Don’t be strong. Be weak. Unclench your fists. Dare to be vulnerable. Honest weakness takes courage”
– Pete Greig
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Truth – Walt Whitman
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
– Walt Whitman
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Every moment – Shunryu Suzuki
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
– Shunryu Suzuki
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Happy people – Unknown
“Happy people tend to be positive thinkers who don’t get caught up in things they can’t control”
– Unknown
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Comparison – Theodore Roosevelt
‘Comparison is the thief of joy’
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Don’t be humble – Golda Meir
“Don’t be humble. You’re not that great.”
– Golda Meir
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Attitude – Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
– Maya Angelou
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A thousand tiny surrenders – Robert Brault
“You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.”
– Robert Brault
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We’re surrounded – Chesty puller
“We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
– Chesty puller
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Look ridiculous – Thomas Fuller
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”
– Thomas Fuller