Ten Random Quotes

"Compassion is the basis of morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
Carl Sandburg

"Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow men together in a state of carefree happiness. And only the world of the theater ever really succeeds in doing this."
Jean Jacques Gautier

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
Lao Tzu

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
Anthony Robbins

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Rita Mae Brown

"The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds."
James Thurber

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
William Faulkner

"Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting."
Elizabeth Bibesco

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