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Melvil Dewey quote: "What is more important to a library than anything else - than..."
What is more important to a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. Melvil Dewey
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened. W. Somerset Maugham
My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty rooms T. S. Eliot
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past Karl Marx
People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate. Dean Koontz
Margaret Fuller quote: "Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only..."
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Margaret Fuller
The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible to prove the existence of God as to disprove it. I do not believe in God. I see no need of such an idea. It is incredible to me that there should be an after-life. I find the notion of future punishment outrageous and of future reward extravagant. I am convinced that when I die, I shall cease entirely to live; I shall return to the earth I came from. Yet I can imagine that at some... W. Somerset Maugham
The desert could not be claimed or owned? it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape. Michael Ondaatje
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed. Friedrich Nietzsche
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. Thomas Merton
Carl Jung quote: "Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to..."
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. Carl Jung
Ayn Rand quote: "The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is..."
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand
Cyril Connolly quote: "While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes..."
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly
Les Brown quote: "Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you..."
Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. Les Brown
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot... Elizabeth Wurtzel

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