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"I think it’s very healthy to be alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
–Oscar Wilde -
"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways."
–Rumi -
"Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words."
–William Faulkner -
"With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?"
–Oscar Wilde -
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question."
–Harun Yahya -
"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
–Albert Einstein -
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
–e. e. cummings -
"Oh yes, there are worse things than being alone, but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do, it’s too late, and there’s nothing worse than too late."
–Charles Bokowski -
"Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know."
–Daniel Boorstin -
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
–Hermann Hesse
I like to collect quotes. I find that others have put things I think and feel into words far better than I ever could, and I like to remember those. This is my collection of things other people have said that have moved me, made me laugh, made me think, or made me yell "Ah-ha! Someone else gets it!"
