“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“as he stood there, love came to Big Joe Portagee. It sang in his head; it roared through his body like a great freshet; it shook him as a tropical storm shakes a forest of palms.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but Beth had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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