“Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“a leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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