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Beautiful Human Being Simplicity Will Has-Been Superfluous Posture More Simpler Concentration Discarded Been Discovers Human Achieved Being Sober Elegance

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach

You Finished Earth Alive Find Mission Test Whether Your Here

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. Richard Bach

Yourself Obligation Impossible Be True Mark Else Only Lifetime True Messiah Fake Any Being Anyone Anyone Else Anything Anything Else Your

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. Richard Bach

Home You Change Think Once Born About Simplest Most Answers Doing Were Questions Going Where While Your Watch Profound

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. Salman Rushdie

Freedom You Law Free Country Society Rule Rule Of Law Those Free Country Open Open Society Freedom Of Expression Bedrock Any Form Expression Things Two

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov

Life Death Great Sunrise Life Is A See Greater Should Even Why

Look back, and smile on perils past. Walter Scott

Smile Past Back Look Perils

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. William Goldman

Life You Pain Tells Something Selling Anyone Who Differently

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley

Great Patriotism Feeling Nation Our Virtuous Worst Able More Cheat Wishes Attractions Bully Person Vicariously Fulfills Profoundly

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? Amelia Barr

Heart Own Our Know Nearest

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Barr

Love Love Is Fate Too Much Too Seems Always Little Much

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. Andrew O'Hagan

Time Good Day You Looking Spend Waves Earth One Day Horizon Scene Point Between Know Until Deal Arrival Up Wonder Departure Where Deposit Places Might Sea Good Deal Grow Grow Up Lived Bring Two

The one thing that matters is the effort. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Matters One Thing Effort The One Thing Thing

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey

Friendship True Friendship Allowance True Make Another Essence Little

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