“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, it helps not, it prevails not.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Thus any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call LOVE.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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