Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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| — | Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi) |
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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| — | Bertrand Russell |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.
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| — | Bertrand Russell |
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
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| — | David Baldacci, The Forgotten |
There’s always more to life than money. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn’t be the goal.
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| — | David Baldacci, The Innocent |
Thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else’s, and where your thoughts are, there you are, in truth.
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| — | A.S. Byatt, Possession |
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.
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| — | A.S. Byatt |
