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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”

“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Success comes from preparation.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

“I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.”

A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it’s story.”

“Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.”

There is grandeur in this view of life.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.