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- The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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