“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Isaac Newton
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien · The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain · Notebook, 1904
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
T. S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov · Speak, Memory, 1951
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
