Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The square pegs in round holes. The ones who see things differently. They aren't fond of rules, and they have no respect for status quota. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the one thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward and while some see crazy ones - we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that can change the world, are the ones that do.
"In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters." — Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)
"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done." Leonardo Da Vinci
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives. – Frederick F. Flack
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein
The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it. - The Lion King
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.” John Hobbes
“The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” Wendell Berry
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." G.K. Chesterton
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe
"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did." — Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
- Charlie Chaplin
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." Carl Jung
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." Albert Pine
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Sir Francis Bacon (here used in a puzzle by The Keystone Killer and in Max Ryan's book on page 184).
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde
"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." — Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)
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