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When Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin remarked, “The people applaud me because everybody understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” ~ Aristotle

“A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” ~ Friedrich Neitzsche

Aurinko kun päätti retken
siskoistaan jäi jälkeen hetken
päivänsäde viimeinen.
Hämärä jo metsään hiipi,
päivänsäde kultasiipi
juuri aikoi lentää eestä sen,
kun menninkäisen pienen näki vastaan tulevan,
se juuri oli noussut luolastaan.
Kas menninkäinen ennen päivänlaskua ei voi
milloinkaan elää päällä maan.

Katselivat toisiansa,
menninkäinen rinnassansa
tunsi kummaa leiskuntaa.
Sanoi: "Poltat silmiäni,
mutt' en ole eläissäni
nähnyt mitään yhtä ihanaa!
Ei haittaa vaikka loisteesi mun sokeaksi saa
- on pimeässä hyvä asustaa.
Käy kanssani niin kotiluolaan näytän sulle tien
- ja sinut armaakseni vien!"

Säde vastas: "Peikkokulta,
pimeys vie hengen multa
enkä toivo kuolemaa.
Pois mun täytyy heti mennä,
ellen kohta valoon lennä
niin en hetkeäkään elää saa!"
Niin lähti kaunis päivänsäde, mutta vieläkin,
kun menninkäinen yössä tallustaa,
hän miettii miksi toinen täällä valon lapsi on
ja toinen yötä rakastaa.

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things."

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work."

“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.”

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous."

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old in fifteen minutes.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

"Never chase love, affection or attention, if it isn't given freely it isn't worth having."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

"There's more to the truth than just the facts."

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

"Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole."

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."

"Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death."

"We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers."

"It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch."

"You exist in time, but you belong to eternity."

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real.... Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die."

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Stars you see at night have been dead longer than we've been alive... Knowing this are you willing to simply accept a mundane existence?"

(To be exact, for the most part, this is in fact not true, most of the stars you see in the night sky are within a few thousand light years from earth and are still very much alive, but I still appreciate the idea of this quote.)

"Judging someone doesn't define who they are. It defines who YOU are."

"I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man."

"Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

"If you can't improve on silence, don't speak."

"First thought, best thought."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"He who seeds a thought, harvests a destiny."

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."

"An angry man catches no fish"