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Here are some of quotes that i like ^_^ [list subjected to expand as more are discovered and they are in no order]:


“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
Richard Moss, M.D.

"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
Albert Schweitzer

“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”
Noah Porter

“Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”
Norman Vincent Peale

“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.”
Marquis de Vauvenargues

“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
William Shakespeare

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Pietro Aretino

“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”
Jesse Louis Jackson

“Life without the courage for death is slavery.”
Seneca

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
E. M. Forster

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
Thomas Szasz

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
Stendhal

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon

“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.”
Aeschylus

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein

“It is better to learn late than never.”
Publilius Syrus

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”
Saskya Pandita

“There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.”
Roger Caras

“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”
Leonard I. Sweet

“Life without a friend is death without a witness.”
Eugene Benge

“Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.”
Helen Steiner Rice

“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”
Albert Camus

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
Japanese Proverb

“Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.”
Golda Meir