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"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." - Rumi

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.” -Herman Melville

he who thinks deepest loves the most. Friedrich Hölderlin

every morning we are born again. what we do today is what matters most. Buddha

I think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. Vincent Van Gogh

“as long as you still experience the stars as something "above you,” you lack the eye of knowledge.” - Nietzsche

show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world. Napolean

the more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer

you will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. Joubert

if it's not right, don't do it; if it's not true, don't say it. Marcus Aurelius

if something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. Charles Bukowski

we are what we repeatedly do. excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

to develop a complete mind, study the science of art; study the art of science. learn how to see; realize that everything connects to everything else. Leonardo Da Vinci

if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan

be a loner, that gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. have holy curiosity. make your life worth living. Albert Einstein

before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes. Sigmund Freud

in the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

the reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. Marcel Pagnol

live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. however mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. Henry David Thoreau

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition. Vernon Howard

you can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him Goethe