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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

— Henry David Thoreau  <link>

Because people don’t like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

— Terry Pratchett, Making Money  <link>

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

— Dr. Seuss  <link>

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

— André Gide  <link>

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard  <link>

You wear a mask and your face grows to fit it.

— George Orwell  <link>

For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain  <link>

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the “opium of the masses”—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

— Albert Einstein  <link>

A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

— Bennett Cerf  <link>

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  <link>

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

— C.S. Lewis  <link>

Unless you are in a vacuum, this glass of which you speak will always be full, half of liquid, half of air, no matter your level of ignorance.

— Author unknown  <link>