“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)”
― Steven Moffat
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Khalil Gibran
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”
― Bill Watterson, Weirdos From Another Planet: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Six: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
Howard Scott
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― Patrick deWitt,
“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Lou Holtz
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
- Leonard Louis Levinson
"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, you ruin a beautiful business opportunity."
Karl Marx
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
