"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Hendrix, Jimi on power
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"Life flows on within you and without you."

Harrison, George on life
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on hatred
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"Cynicism is indeed negative for your mind, but if you can allow it as your cloud to your sunshine, then it may strengthen you to see the truth."

Qi Nyong on truth   

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

Davis, Miles on music
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"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on fantasy
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"The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."

Carlyle, Thomas on music
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"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

Chopra, Deepak on art
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Rushdie, Salman on myth   

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Rushdie, Salman on knowledge
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on desire
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

Lubbock, Sir John on rest
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on government
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"The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship."

Szasz, Thomas on intimacy   

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas on insecurity
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"The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

Szasz, Thomas on aid and assistance
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."

Szasz, Thomas on education   

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

Camus, Albert on production
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

Camus, Albert on music
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

Camus, Albert on greatness
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on words
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

Lao-Tzu on happiness
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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership   

"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."

Szasz, Thomas on madness
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"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love."

Szasz, Thomas on knowledge
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"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."

Lao-Tzu on understanding
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"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it."

Fromm, Erich on time
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"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now."

Rushdie, Salman on intolerance   

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on imagination
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"Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

Milton, John on youth   

"What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?"

Milton, John on solitude   

"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."

Szasz, Thomas on conceit   

"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."

Szasz, Thomas on systems   

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

Szasz, Thomas on ridicule   

"In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients."

Szasz, Thomas on madness
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"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!"

Einstein, Albert on time
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