Anais Nin

• "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
• "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
• "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
• "What I cannot love, I overlook."
• "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
• "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
• "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
  
• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
• "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
  
• "I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
• "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
  
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Friedrich Nietzsche

• "In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
• "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
  
• "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
  
• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
  
• "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
  
• "Man is the cruelest animal."
  
• "Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
  
• "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
  

Lao Tzu

• "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know."
  
• "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
  
• "Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
  
• "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
  
• ""When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be"
  
• "At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
  
• "Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
  

Langston Hughes

• "Dig and be dug in return."
  

William Ernest Henley

• "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
  

Sylvia Plath

• "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."
  

Dorothy Parker

• "You might as well live."
  

Ginsberg

• "I saw the great minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
  

Milan Kundera

• "We live everyday as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
  

Aristotle

• "Evil brings men together."
  
• "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
  
• "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
  
• "A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
  

Jane Austen

• "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
  
• "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
  
• "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
  

Albert Einstein

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
  
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
  

Confucius

• "Where ever you go, go with all your heart."
  
• "Have no friends not equal to yourself."
  
• "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
  
• "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
  
• "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
  
• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
  
• "When anger rises, think of the consequences."
  
• "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
  
• "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
  
• "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
  

Robert Frost

• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  
• "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
• "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
  

Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
  
• "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
  
• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  

Ovid

• "All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
  
• "To be loved, be lovable."
  
• "Time the devourer of all things."
  
• "Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
  

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
  
• "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
  
• "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
  
• "It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
  
• "Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
  
• "One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
  
• "Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."
  
• "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
  

Oscar Wilde

• "Genius is born--not paid."
  
• "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
  
• "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
  
• "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
  
• "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
  
• "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
  

Voltaire

• "...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
  
• "History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
  
• "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
  

Henry David Thoreau

• "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
  
• "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
  
• "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
  
• "My friend is one... who take me for what I am."
  

Sophocles

• "No man loves life like him that's growing old."
  
• "To him who is in fear everything rustles."
  

Socrates

• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
• "The unexamined life is not worth living."
  

William Shakespeare

• "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
  
• "I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
  
• "I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
  

Plato

• "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
  
• "Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
  
• "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
  
• "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
  

Omar Khayyam

• "Keep yourself from worries and sorrow, seize with all your might this fleeting life, yesterday is already far, tomorrow not yet arrived; be happy for a moment, this moment is your life; fill the bountiful cup, life is disgrace, drunkenness grace."
  

Marcello Rubini

• "You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home."

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