“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
– Sir James Jeans
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Criticism – Goethe
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
– Goethe
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True contentment – Charles Caleb Colton
“True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Change the world ― Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
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Tyrants and murderers – Mahatma Gandhi
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Inside-out people – John Hurt
“I play the unloved … people like us, the inside-out people, who live their lives as an experiment, not as a formula.”
– John Hurt
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People – Unknown
“People know more than you think they do, but less than they think they do.”
– Unknown, reddit
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Rainbow – Maya Angelou
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
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Nirvana – Joseph Campbell
“Nirvana is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by desire, by fear or by social commitments – when you hold your center and act out of there.”
– Joseph Campbell
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Fallen – Boris Pasternak
“I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”
– Boris Pasternak
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Love – Meša Selimović
“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”
― Meša Selimović
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Soul – Marcus Aurelius
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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Medicine – Walt Whitman
“There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.”
– Walt Whitman
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Broken – Unknown
“I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken.”
– Unknown
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Good people – Donald J. Trump
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.”
– Donald J. Trump