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Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.
Helen Keller1880–1968Three Days to See (1933)
There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
- Morality
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary1920–1996The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
- Youth
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Take The Risk (2008), p. 58
- Risk
It’s a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Literary Ethics (1838)
- Thinking
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Rectorial Address, St. Andrew’s (3 May 1922)
- Enemies
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946“What Is English Literature?” (1935)
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)
- Fear
Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Speech at Brown University (1995)
- Inspiration
Avoid running at all times.
And don’t look back⁠— something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige1906–1982“How to Stay Young,” Collier’s Magazine (13 June 1953)
- Comedy
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
Barbara Bush1925–2018Advice about news reporters, to incoming first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a tour of the White House, as quoted in Newsweek magazine (30 November 1992)
- Journalism
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.
Frank Zappa1940–1993In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914Epigrams, p. 354
- Philosophy
Don’t be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable.
Susan Sontag1933–2004Death Kit (1967), p.73 [Page numbers per the Penguin Modern Classics 2009 Edition]
- Envy