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Every sur­vival kit should include a sense of humor.

Learn­ing makes a man fit com­pany for himself.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. — Tao Te Ching

Don’t ever for­get that you’re a cit­i­zen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civil­ity, respect, kind­ness, char­ac­ter. — Aaron Sorkin

His­tory teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alter­na­tives. — Abba Eban

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific sta­tion, that great char­ac­ters are formed. The habits of a vig­or­ous mind are formed in con­tend­ing with dif­fi­cul­ties. Great neces­si­ties call out great virtues. — Abi­gail Adams, Let­ter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan­u­ary 1780

If par­tic­u­lar care and atten­tion is not paid to the ladies, we are deter­mined to foment a rebel­lion, and will not hold our­selves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or rep­re­sen­ta­tion. — Abi­gail Adams

Nations have recently been led to bor­row bil­lions for war; no nation has ever bor­rowed largely for edu­ca­tion. Prob­a­bly, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civ­i­liza­tion. We must make our choice; we can­not have both. — Abra­ham Flexner

Just to be is a bless­ing. Just to live is holy. — Abra­ham Heschel

All progress has resulted from peo­ple who took unpop­u­lar posi­tions. All change is the result of a change in the con­tem­po­rary state of mind. Don’t be afraid of being out of tune with your envi­ron­ment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of think­ing it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You’ll have more fun, you’ll do more and you’ll get more, you’ll give more sat­is­fac­tion the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adven­ture at a stir­ring time in the annals of men. — Adlai Steven­son

War is an absolute fail­ure of imag­i­na­tion, sci­en­tific and polit­i­cal. — Adri­enne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman. — Adri­enne Rich

When a woman tells the truth she is cre­at­ing the pos­si­bil­ity for more truth around her. — Adri­enne Rich

No act of kind­ness, no mat­ter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop

Under­stand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, how­ever ugly in itself, is always curi­ous and beau­ti­ful to seek­ers after it. — Agatha Christie, The Mur­der of Roger Ack­royd, char­ac­ter Her­cule Poirot

I like liv­ing. I have some­times been wildly, despair­ingly, acutely mis­er­able, racked with sor­row, but through it all I still know quite cer­tainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. — Agatha Christie

An archae­ol­o­gist is the best hus­band a woman can have. The older she gets the more inter­ested he is in her. — Agatha Christie

Liv­ing is a form of not being sure, not know­ing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. — Agnes de Mille

The cre­ative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your com­fort and go into the wilder­ness of your intu­ition. — Alan Alda

Not every­thing that counts can be counted. Not every­thing that can be counted counts. — Albert Ein­stein

It is a very grave mis­take to think that the enjoy­ment of see­ing and search­ing can be pro­moted by means of coer­cion and a sense of duty. — Albert Ein­stein

It is lit­tle short of a mir­a­cle that mod­ern meth­ods of instruc­tion have not already com­pletely stran­gled the holy curios­ity of inquiry, because what this del­i­cate lit­tle plant needs most, apart from ini­tial stim­u­la­tion, is free­dom; with­out that it is surely destroyed … I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its vora­cious­ness, if one could force it with a whip to eat con­tin­u­ously whether it were hun­gry or not. — Albert Ein­stein

Every­body is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its abil­ity to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believ­ing that it is stu­pid. — Albert Ein­stein

To sense that behind any­thing that can be expe­ri­enced there is a some­thing that our mind can­not grasp and whose beauty and sub­lim­ity reaches us only indi­rectly and as a fee­ble reflec­tion, this is reli­gious­ness. In this sense I am reli­gious. — Albert Ein­stein

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my reli­gious con­vic­tions, a lie which is being sys­tem­at­i­cally repeated. I do not believe in a per­sonal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If some­thing is in me which can be called reli­gious then it is the unbounded admi­ra­tion for the struc­ture of the world so far as our sci­ence can reveal it. — Albert Ein­stein

A man’s eth­i­cal behav­ior should be based effec­tu­ally on sym­pa­thy, edu­ca­tion, and social ties; no reli­gious basis is nec­es­sary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of pun­ish­ment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Ein­stein

What we have done for our­selves alone dies with us. What we have done for oth­ers and the world remains immor­tal. — Albert Pine

There are two means of refuge from the mis­ery of life—music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer

Even if it’s a lit­tle thing, do some­thing for those who need help, some­thing for which you get no pay but the priv­i­lege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer

Expe­ri­ence is not what hap­pens to a man. It is what a man does with what hap­pens to him. — Aldous Hux­ley

If your object is to secure lib­erty, you must learn to do with­out author­ity and com­pul­sion. If you intend to live in peace and har­mony with your fellow-men, you and they should cul­ti­vate broth­er­hood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual ben­e­fit, you must prac­tice coop­er­a­tion. The social rev­o­lu­tion means much more than the reor­ga­ni­za­tion of con­di­tions only: it means the estab­lish­ment of new human val­ues and social rela­tion­ships, a changed atti­tude of man to man, as of one free and inde­pen­dent to his equal; it means a dif­fer­ent spirit in indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive life, and that spirit can­not be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cul­ti­vated, to be nur­tured and reared, as the most del­i­cate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beau­ti­ful exis­tence. — Alexan­der Berkman

Lit­er­a­ture becomes the liv­ing mem­ory of a nation. — Alexan­der Solzhenitsyn

The prin­ci­ple of equal­ity does not destroy the imag­i­na­tion, but low­ers its flight to the level of the earth. — Alexis de Tocqueville

Every­body has a part of their body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped com­plain­ing about mine because I don’t want to cri­tique nature’s handiwork…My job is sim­ply to allow the light to shine out of the mas­ter­piece. — Alfre Woodard

If you don’t have solid beliefs you can­not build a sta­ble life. Beliefs are like the foun­da­tion of a build­ing, and they are the foun­da­tion to build your life upon. — Alfred A. Montapert

I am part of all that I have met. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Music is the lit­er­a­ture of the heart; it com­mences where speech ends. — Alphonse de Lamartine

There is noth­ing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know. — Ambrose Bierce

All inti­macy is rare—that’s what makes it pre­cious. — Amy Bloom

Go to where the silence is and say some­thing. — Amy Good­man

We all lose friends… we lose them in death, to dis­tance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friend­ship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on. — Amy Marie Walz

Dreams are nec­es­sary to life. — Anaïs Nin

Life shrinks or expands in pro­por­tion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

Age does not pro­tect you from love. But love, to some extent, pro­tects you from age. — Anaïs Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who com­pels my strength, who makes enor­mous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my tough­ness, who does not believe me naive or inno­cent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. — Anaïs Nin

An edu­ca­tion isn’t how much you have com­mit­ted to mem­ory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to dif­fer­en­ti­ate between what you know and what you don’t. — Ana­tole France

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we can­not remove them with­out remov­ing some of our own skin. — Andre Berthi­aume

As for courage and will—we can­not mea­sure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be suf­fi­cient to carry through tri­als which may lie ahead. — Andre Nor­ton

The car­di­nal doc­trine of a fanatic’s creed is that his ene­mies are the ene­mies of God. — Andrew Dick­son White

Read­ing a book is like rewrit­ing it for your­self. You bring to a novel, any­thing you read, all your expe­ri­ence of the world. You bring your his­tory and you read it in your own terms. — Angela Carter

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