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Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

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He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations. ↗

— Confucius

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die. ↗

— John Keats

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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. ↗

— Herman Melville

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You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want... ↗

— Julia Heywood

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Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life. (as said by Mrs. Pearson) ↗

— Adam Gopnik

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It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'. ↗

— Gasmaskman

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The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! ↗

— Dew Platt

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