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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'."
- Ayn Rand

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The longest journey is the journey inward."
- Dag Hammarskjold

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
- Lao-tzu

"Passive acceptance of evil is tantamount to its perpetration."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
-Epicteus

"Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason."
-Mevlana Rumi

"In the midst of winter, I finally realized that there was within me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein

"Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When (actors) say, 'What about my performance?' I say, 'What about my fucking performance?' I'm responsible for the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way it's cast, what the locations look like, what the script's like, how the fucking hair is done. So back off and . . . give me a little bit of space to coordinate these things at which I'm maybe one of the best. I say it's not just about you. Ultimately, its about me."
-Ridley Scott

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself."
-Charles Chaplin

"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
- Shirley MacLaine

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
- Satchel Paige

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
- Leonardi da Vinci

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill

"Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed."
- Charles Lindbergh

"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication."
- Leonardi da Vinci

"Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm."
Marcus Aurelius

"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
- Epictetus

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
- Dalai Lama

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