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"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
Will Rogers

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That is why they call it the present."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is a window between heart and heart:
They are never separate like two bodies.
Two lamps may not be united in their form -
But their light merges into each other."
Rumi

"Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today!"
Rumi

"No one who has ever had a sign from you need worry again about 'name' or 'sign.' "
Rumi

"He who perceives Your chain-like, linked tress-on-tress and then stays "rational" is mad."
Rumi

"The man to whom is unveiled the mystery of Love
Exists no longer, but vanishes into Love.
Place before the Sun a burning candle
And watch its brilliance disappear before that blaze.
The candle exists no longer, it is transformed into Light;
There are no more signs of it, it itself becomes sign."
Rumi

"Whatever form you can imagine, He stands above it
Like a painter above his brush.
However much "higher" you gaze, He is higher than that "higher"!
Abandon words, abandon books - let Him be your Book!"
Rumi

"As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil."
Rumi

"They ask, "What is love?" Reply: "Giving up your self-will."
Rumi

"Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love!"
Rumi

"Beauties have come from the Invisible to call you home."
Rumi

"The whole world is racing in the wrong direction
For everyone is terrified of non-existence
That is, in reality, the only certain refuge."
Rumi

"Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions."
Rumi

"You are a placeless fire
All places burn away in,
A whirlpool of Nowhere
Drowning me deeper, deeper."
Rumi

"What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive?"
Rumi

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
Bertrand Russell

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
Bertrand Russell

"In view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Bertrand Russell

"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."
Bertrand Russell

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
Bertrand Russell

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
Bertrand Russell

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
Bertrand Russell

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
Bertrand Russell

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
Bertrand Russell

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
Bertrand Russell

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell

"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopaedias."
Bertrand Russell

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
Carl Sagan

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Carl Sagan

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
Carl Sagan

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
Carl Sagan

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
Carl Sagan

"Most people who are standing still in life aren't going any place for a very simple reason. They haven't selected a place to go."
David J. Schwartz

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer

"Do not seek the truth. Only cease to cherish opinions."
Seng Ts'an

"There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind."
Hannah Senesh

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."
Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose
The good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
Shakespeare

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Shakespeare

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw

"Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy!"
Marci Shimoff

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."
Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates

"An honest man is always a child."
Socrates

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Socrates

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Socrates

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
Socrates

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Socrates

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