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Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in. — Jack Osbourne

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way. — Napoleon Hill

Contemplating leaving everything I had ever known of one ill-advised hour of passionate lunacy. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good. — Oliver Burkeman

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year ... death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. — Graham Greene

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart). — Charles Baudelaire

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools. — Taylor Caldwell

To get whatever you want from life you have only to set in motion the appropriate cause, and the effect will take care of itself. — Keith Ellis

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty. — Shannon L. Alder

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream. — Paul MacCready

I speak without knowing it. I speak with my body and I do so unbeknownst to myself. Thus I always say more than I know.

This is where I arrive at the meaning of the word "subject" in analytic discourse. What speaks without knowing it makes me "I," subject of the verb. That doesn't suffice to bring me into being. That has nothing to do with what I am forced to put in - enough knowledge for it to hold up, but not one drop more. — Jacques Lacan

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot. — Ray Bradbury