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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

Live, Lost, Find

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

End, Pretty, Serious

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Alone, Give

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Moment, Genius, House

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Fear, Last

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

Today, Loneliness, Young

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Mind, Saying

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau

Books, Manner, Treated

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

Soul, Insults, Dismiss

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Women, Men

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, True, Place

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Strength, Adversity, Obstacles

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa

Music, Time, Boring

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

Yourself, Nothing, Find

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude, Soul, Blossom

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

Business, Successful, Him

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Humble

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Henry David Thoreau

Found, Solid, Hollow

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost

Work, Worst, Disease

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau

Bad, Goodness, Tainted

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Present, Worse

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Death, Thought

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

Whether, Might, Concerning

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Life, Love, Flower

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

Fire, Door, Painting

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

Dreams, Nature, Against

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

Goal, Living, Until

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Yourself, Live

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