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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self. — B.o.B

To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our own memories. Remember that, as in any pool, when we cast one pebble we will see many, many concentric circles. One memory begets another and then another, building into stories. — Meinrad Craighead

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren - and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands chearily together, that was I in a desart, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections - If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to - I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection - I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the loveliest trees throughout the desert: if their leaves wither'd, I would teach myself to mourn, and when they rejoiced, I would rejoice along with them. — Laurence Sterne

I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened. — Stephen Chbosky

Self belief is half the job done. Rest is your hard work. — Saru Singhal

I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it. — Robert Wagner

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason. — Saul D. Alinsky

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. — Ulrich Beck

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city men build has but a jumble of bones for its foundation. What is your need to me? I am the Watcher in the Dark. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. — Norman Mailer

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men. — Lajos Kossuth

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris. — Giambattista Valli

In the world of physical matter, whether one is looking at the largest star that floats through the heavens or the smallest grain of sand to be found on earth, the object under observation is but an organized collection of molecules, atoms and electrons revolving around one another at inconceivable speed. Every particle of physical matter is in a continuous state of highly agitated motion. Nothing is ever still, although nearly all physical matter may appear, to the physical eye, to be motionless. There is no "solid" physical matter. — Napoleon Hill