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“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

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