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I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. Roger Ebert
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to always tell the difference. Kurt Vonnegut
With the weight of four thousand years of cannibalism bearing down upon me, even if I was once innocent how can I now face real humans? Lu Xun
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. Edgar Allan Poe
Isabelle Eberhardt quote: "The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than..."
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. Isabelle Eberhardt
Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem? John M. Ford
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that. Richard Linklater
Frank O'Hara quote: "Leaf! you are so big! How can you change yourcolor, then just..."
Leaf! you are so big! How can you change yourcolor, then just fall! As if there were nosuch thing as integrity! Frank O'Hara
Zig Ziglar quote: "When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise..."
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. Zig Ziglar
Charlie Chaplin quote: "Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes..."
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough Charlie Chaplin
Today we ought to add to these terms the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many can be held responsible and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Hannah Arendt
Allen Ginsberg quote: "Our heads are round so thought can change direction"
Our heads are round so thought can change direction Allen Ginsberg
He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. Mary Renault
Shunryu Suzuki quote: "Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a..."
Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement. Shunryu Suzuki
To please Go? to be a real ingredient in the divine happines? to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. C. S. Lewis

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