We are all born mad. Some remain so. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â --Samuel Beckett
We are all born mad. Some remain so. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ââSamuel Beckett
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
                                                                                    ââAlbert Einstein
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
                                                                   ââMarian Wright Edelman
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.               ââWilliam Sloan Coffin
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
                                                                                   ââAdlai Stevenson
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We donât know because we donât want to know. Â ââAldous Huxley
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
                                                                                               ââCarl Jung
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
                                                                                ââKurt Vonnegut, Jr
Wise men talk because they have something to say ââ fools, because they have to say something.           ââPlato
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
 ââAlbert Camus
It is not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.  ââGreek proverb
Fanaticism is⦠overcompensation for doubt.
ââRobertson Davies
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesnât have any doubt ââ it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesnât want to go anywhere else.                                                                      ââHal Boyle
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