“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else...”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”

― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion!”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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