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I trav­el on by nature’s path until I fall and find rest, breath­ing my last into that air from which I draw my dai­ly breath, and falling on that earth which gave my father his seed, my moth­er her blood, my nurse her milk; the earth which for so many years has fed and watered me day by day; the earth which bears my tread and all the ways in which I abuse her.

Mar­cus Aurelius
Emper­or of Rome, 121–180 A.D.
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Men seek retreats for them­selves… no retreat offers some­one more qui­et and relax­ation than that into his own mind.

Mar­cus Aurelius
Emper­or of Rome, 121–180 A.D.
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If I can­not sway the heav­ens, I’ll wake the pow­ers of hell! Flectere si nequeo super­os, Acheronta movebo.

Vir­gil
The Aeneid
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Some­times when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beau­ti­ful place! Don’t be afraid of get­ting lost!

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Turk­ish play­wright, nov­el­ist and thinker
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L’homme n’est rien, l’œuvre tout!

Gus­tave Flaubert
French writer and novelist 
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Just as the body needs food, the soul needs books.

Anas Habib
Syr­i­a’s Secret Library
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No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Con­ti­nent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promon­to­rie were, as well as if a Man­nor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man’s death dimin­ish­es me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And there­fore nev­er send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

John Donne
Med­i­ta­tion XVII, Devo­tions Upon Emer­gent Occasions
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I am past scorch­ing; not eas­i­ly can’st thou scorch a scar.

Her­man Melville
Moby Dick
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I know not all that may be com­ing, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

Her­man Melville
Moby Dick
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Life nev­er gives us what we want at the moment that we con­sid­er appro­pri­ate. Adven­tures do occur, but not punctually.

E.M. Forster
A Pas­sage To India