And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Alexander Pope

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.

Oscar Wilde

They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.

Orson Scott Card

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lytt

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

Franz Kafka

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Saint Francis of Assisi

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Steve Maraboli

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

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