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“True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the world.”
―Novalis

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
―Dalai Lama

Source/Notes:
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (1984)

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
―Victor Hugo

“Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.”
―Muhammad Ali

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
―Frank Lloyd Wright

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: Duke University Library Newsletter, Issues 1-31 (Perkins Library, Duke University, 1971), p. 9

“There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from....
You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you.”
―Richard Bach

Source/Notes:
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

“And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers... And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.”
―Lord Byron

“Rousseau's writings are so admirably adapted to touch both these classes that the effect they produced, especially in France, is easily intelligible.”
―Thomas Henry Huxley

Source/Notes:
On The Natural Inequality of Men (January 1890).

“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?”
―Rainer Maria Rilke

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”
―Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Source/Notes:
La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
―Billy Graham

Source/Notes:
Day by Day with Billy Graham (1991 edition), Grason - ISBN: 9780890662205

“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
―Benito Mussolini

“You have delighted us long enough.”
―Jane Austen

Source/Notes:
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Chapter 18

“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
―Michael Jordan

“We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.”
―Malcolm X

“Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.”
―Douglas Adams

“In the end, everything is a gag.”
―Charlie Chaplin

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: Charlie Chaplin's one-man show (1984) by Dan Kamin, p. 37

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find the humor in anything, you can survive it.”
―Bill Cosby

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