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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."Translation by Sharon Lebell"
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
"There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you."
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
"Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly."
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world."
"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."
"Both of the items were used in an attempted murder, but hers was a dagger, and mine was a baby’s rubber bottle nipple. That was the last time I took a stab at love."
"The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is."
"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
"He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his."
"You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance."
"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."
"Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"Live to the point of tears."
"Finally, I Know Who I Am You are what you eat.~ Ludwig Andreas FeuerbachWe become what we think about.~ Earl NightingaleI'm a Horny Pizza!"
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