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Don’t unthinkingly follow authorities whether intellectual, or political, or religious. And don’t unthinkingly follow traditions, or social conventions. Think for yourself. Look at the facts, and try to base your views and behavior on how things actually are.
– John LockeThe aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
– Oscar WildeThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
– HippocratesPeople’s energies are made of their souls. When you die, that energy may disperse but it isn’t destroyed. Energy cannot be destroyed. It can manifest in a different way but even then it’s like their souls are going somewhere. If it’s going to heaven or hell or even if it’s going into a fog or somewhere in the atmosphere to lurk unbeknownst to itself, it’s going somewhere.
– PharrellThe most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.
– How to Lose Time and Money Via pkmk tmblrThe most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
– Stephen KingIt is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle-tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
– Vladimir Nabokov Via Nine Kinds of CrazyHe felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
– Leo Tolstoy