Mysterious

The world […] is indeed a strange and deeply mysterious place, forever changing and remaking itself anew. But this is not a novel condition, our world hasn’t only recently become bizarre and temporary, it has been so ever since its inception, and it will continue to be such until its end—mystifying and forever in a state of flux.

~ Nick Cave

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Amateurs

That’s all of us are: Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.

~ Charlie Chaplin

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Luxury

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.

~ Cicero

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Experience

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

~ Ram Dass

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Books

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

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Words

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

~ Tom Stoppard

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Sea

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Nature

I can do nothing without nature. I do not know how to make things up.

~ Manet

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Work

No country ever was built by people sleeping in. Austria was not built by people sleeping in. America was not built by people sleeping in. People struggled, people suffered, people worked their asses off to build this country.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Reading

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

~ William Godwin

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