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Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-Samuel Beckett

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’"

~ Kurt Vonnegut

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

Good is not the enemy of perfect.

Cormac Mccarthy:

"Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere."

No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX

It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute

You fucked up. You trusted us.

From Animal House

I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.

"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"

Also:

"Do what you can't"

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.

One must imagine sisyphus happy.

“The only common factor in all of your failures, is you.”

-Meh, I don’t know

Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.

Life is too short to please everybody.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM

Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

• Hellen Keller

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). Said on his deathbed, when asked by a priest if he forgave his enemies.

Not that I’m in favor if shooting people :) It’s just so deliciously unapologetic and I love the setting in which it is said.

I can't pick just one.

Now the world has gone to bed

Darkness won't engulf my head

I can see by infra-red

How I hate the night

-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.

When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture

Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

“The American public knows what it wants, and it deserves to get it… good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

“Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul and set you free from all your sins. Sometimes a woman is a heroin addiction - you are a junkie, you are my best friend. Let her go.” - The Bad Examples

“Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re kidding.” TMBG

“Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.” Abe Lincoln

“Someone told me once that there’s a right and wrong, and that punishment would come to those who dare to cross the line. But it must not be true for jerk-offs like you. Maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole. But I’m tired of waiting. Maybe it’s just bullshit and I should play God, and shoot you myself.”

Maynard

george lucas' greatest accomplishment is that he created an alien that accurately represented seven racial stereotypes

"Cause nothin' moves faster than the hands of time"

"All I know is that I know nothing", Socrates

Took me decades to really understand what he meant.

The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Familiarity breeds contempt