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Alan Watts

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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Oscar Wilde

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Mark Twain

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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Maya Angelou

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

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Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

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Lao Tzu

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

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Mark Twain

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

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Albert Camus

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Albert Camus

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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