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I've taken a recent interest in quotes, I thought I'd share a few:

Never explain yourself: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
-Unknown

Humor makes all things tolerable.
-Henry Ward Beecher

The best thing one can do when it's raining is let it rain.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
-Henry David Thoreau

If you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
-Katharine Hepburn

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
-Kierkegaard

What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared
To what lies within us

-Ralp Waldo Emerson

He is happiest who finds peace in his home.
-Goethe

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
-Bill Copeland

Talking too much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
-Nietzsche

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
-Brock Clark

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
-Bill Cosby

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
-Peter McWilliams

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain to wish for death and not compass it.
-Sophocles

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just a bad.
-Bob Edwards

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
-Saint Jerome

The more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
-Thomas Merton

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
-David T. Wolf

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker

"To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets."
- Mencius

"if only i had been a locksmith"-A. Einstein
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt

the last one is my favorite

I looove quotes, i have tons of them on little note pads around my room haha... Heres 3 of my favorites...

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear, and the blind can see- Mark Twain

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent- Eleonor Roosevelt

The journey is what you brings you happiness, not the destination- Socrates

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Being Normal Is Vastly Overrated

"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here." -Aaron Funk
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Einstein
"To be a man, you must have... [look it up on YT]" -Shin

Only three of what I can remember.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
- Damon Runyan

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"Oh, that's deep. You should send that in to Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
- Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the one who will win-Roger Bannister

Women and cats do as they please and men dogs must learn to relax and get used to the idea-Robert Heinlein

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat-Mark Twain

Time spent with cats is never wasted-Collette

I found other races too boring. I found the mile just perfect-Roger Bannister

I have opinions of my own-strong opinions-but I don't always agree with them."
George Bush

I like the quotes you people posted. I have a favourite quote too, because in my opinion it speaks the truth, no matter how bad or good it might be (though I think it is neither).

"The great object in life is Sensation - to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this 'craving void' which drives us to gaming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment."
- Lord Byron

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. -Holden Caulfield

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

-Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952