"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."

Einstein, Albert on pleasure
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."

Einstein, Albert on money
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on methods
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain."

Proverb on pleasure
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"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."

Horton, Doug on science   

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

Thoreau, Henry David on progress
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"Still curious and willing to learn, I hope. "

Cheshire Cat on wonderland   

"Every adventure requires a first step."

Cheshire Cat on
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"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."

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"Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to."

Cheshire Cat on   

"The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?"

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"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John on certainty
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"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John on drugs
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"Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice."

Hogan, James P. on success
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

Cope, Wendy on age and aging   

"There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them."

Ringer, Robert J. on appreciation
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"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

Allen, James on self-improvement
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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