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“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
“Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.”
“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”
“Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.”
“We cannot expect to be happy always... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.”
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”
“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive.”
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