"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Goodman, Paul on joy
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

Browning, Robert on writers and writing
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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