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Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it–love yourself
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  1. There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  2. If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well. – Israelmore Ayivor
  3. Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  4. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  5. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
  6. Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow. – Chuck Wachtel
  7. Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
  8. If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation). – Israelmore Ayivor
  9. Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big! – Israelmore Ayivor
  10. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  12. Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  13. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  14. Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  15. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  16. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  17. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  18. What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  19. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  20. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  21. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  22. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  23. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  24. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn’t know. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can’t live without a culture anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. A woman’s not a woman till the pills wear off. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  34. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. And Castle nodded sagely. ‘So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn’t agree – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  40. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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