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“Wherever you go, whatever you do, be in love.”
— Rumi
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
— James Matthew Barrie
“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”
— Maya Angelou
“What we dwell on is who we become.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When people are very quotable, it can make it harder to listen to what they actually have to say.”
— Maciej Cegłowski
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
— Karl Marx
“What worries you, masters you.”
— John Locke
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
— Maya Angelou
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ”
— St. Jerome
“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.”
— John Wooden
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
— Stephen Hawking
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
— Bill Gates
“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”
— Erich Fromm
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
— Barry Switzer
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
— Josh Billings
“To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.”
— Dogen
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
— Lao Tzu
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
— Rumi
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.”
— Chinese Proverb
“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”
— Jim Rohn

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