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“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
– Amy Bloom
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
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“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us.
Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect.
Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares
“With my eyes closed,
I would touch a familiar book and
draw its fragrance deep inside me.
This was enough to make me happy.”
– Haruki Murakami
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
– Lao Tzu
“One love, one heart . . .let’s get together and feel all right.”
– Bob Marley
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“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
~ I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
~ I shall fear only God.
~ I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
~ I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
~ I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth,
~ I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
– Charles Baudelaire
“The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
In remembrance of those who were killed in the recent Paris Charlie Hebdo attack.
“Nos plus sincères condoléances à la famille et les amis.”
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