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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
State of Ataraxia
"It's a condition characterized by freedom from worry or any other pre-occupation really."
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As we grow older, it’s not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn’t do.
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“Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859)
The role of art isn’t just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
Harry Belafonte
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Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
Robert G. Ingersoll,
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New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring, it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.
Paul Goldberger
Harvard Admission Officer: “Do you consider yourself smart?”
Jeff Skilling: “I’m fucking smart.”
Graduated top of class.
Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron CEO
What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far — which, given your present circumstances, seems more likely — consider yourself lucky that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
“You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
President Teddy Roosevelt
