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“The past is a country from which we have all emigrated.”
— Patrick White
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Home is not where you are born, but where all your attempts to escape cease.”
— Nuruddin Farah
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Nuruddin Farah
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
— Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
— Frida Kahlo
“To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to delude oneself is the romantic.”
— Patrick White
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
— Robert M. Pirsig
“The truth has to be made plausible before it is believed.”
— Patrick White
“I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
— Albert Camus
“We walk in the sun, but our shadow belongs to another world.”
— Tomas Tranströmer
“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
— James Baldwin
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Rebellion is the sign of the soul's immortality.”
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi