Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever."
Marian Keyes
Arguing with a fool is like wrestling with a pig: you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
Mark Twain
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal...but they love the idea of being superior.
James Baldwin
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
Adam Smith
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris Pasternak
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, and the only way, it doesn't exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Richard Feynman
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