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The world is full of
magic things, patiently
waiting for our senses
to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
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No need to hurry.
No need to sparkle.
No need to be
anybody but oneself.
Virginia Woolf
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The more I think it
over, the more I feel
that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
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Cut me open and the
light streams out. Stitch
me up and the light
keeps streaming out
between the stitches.

Richard Siken
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No man lies so
boldly as the man
who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzche
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Your life begins the
day you drop the knife
you’ve been holding
at your own throat.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Courage is
knowing what
to fear.
Plato
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The way I see it, if
you want the
rainbow, you gotta
put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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The world breaks
everyone, and
afterward, some are
strong at the broken
places.
Ernest Hemingway
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It takes courage to
grow up and become
who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
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One of the symptoms
of an approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one’s work
is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell
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If you think you are too
small to make a difference, you haven’t spent
a night with a mosquito.

African Proverb
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We know our
friends by their
defects rather than
by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You only live once,
but if you do it right,
once is enough.
Mae West
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The books that the
world calls immoral are
books that show the
world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde
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I can’t give you a sure-fire
formula for success, but
I can give you a formula
for failure: try to please
everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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There’s a fine line
between genius and
insanity. I have
erased this line.
Oscar Levant
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A clever person
solves a problem.
A wise person
avoids it.
Albert Einstein
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues
because without courage,
you can’t practice any
other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
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Stop acting so small.
You are the universe
in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
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The problem with the
world is that the intelligent people are full of
doubts, while the stupid
ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski
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Words are, of
course, the most
powerful drug used
by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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You probably wouldn’t
worry about what people
think of you if you could
know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller
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It is amazing how
complete is the
delusion that beauty
is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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It is better to fail
in originality than to
succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
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The only way to find
true happiness is
to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
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What would men be
without women?
Scarce, sir ...
mighty scarce.
Mark Twain
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Learn what is to be
taken seriously and
laugh at the rest.
Herman Hesse
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If you obey all of
the rules, you miss
all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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When a man is denied the
right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice
but to become an outlaw.

Nelson Mandela
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You’re not to be so
blind with patriotism that
you can’t face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X
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When we are no longer
able to change a situation, we are challenged
to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl
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The purpose of life is not to
be happy. It is to be useful,
to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make
some difference that you
have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a shipwreck,
but we must not
forget to sing in the
lifeboats.
Voltaire
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When people don’t
express themselves,
they die one piece at
a time.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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It’s discouraging to
think how many people
are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit.
Noël Coward
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Maybe there is a
beast ... maybe
it’s only us.
William Golding
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Compassion is
the basis of
morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The thing that is really
hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being
perfect and beginning the
work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen
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The beginning of love is
the will to let those we love
be perfectly themselves,
the resolution not to twist
them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton
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You are not entitled to
your opinion. You are
entitled to your informed
opinion. No one is
entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison
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One word frees us
of all the weight
and pain of life:
that word is ’love’.
Sophocles
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The most effective way
to destroy people is
to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
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When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to
the rest of the world.
John Muir
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The more one
judges, the less
one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
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It ain’t what they
call you, it’s what
you answer to.
W.C. Fields
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their
hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once
hate is gone, they will be
forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin
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Sometimes things
fall apart so that
better things can
fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
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Hope is a
waking dream.
Aristotle
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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through
our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ’my ignorance is
just as good as your knowledge.’

Isaac Asimov
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Always be a first rate
version of yourself and
not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
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Real generosity
towards the future
lies in giving all to
the present.
Albert Camus
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History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it
just yells,’Can’t you remember anything I told you?’
and lets fly with a club.
John W. Campbell Jr.
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He who opens a
school door,
closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
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No one can be
happy without
virtue.
Cicero
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People grow when they
are loved well. If you
want to help others heal,
love them without an
agenda.
Mike McHargue
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We must resist.
We must refuse
to disappear.
Margaret Atwood
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If you could accept that
perfection is impossible what would you
stop obsessing over?
Rupi Kaur
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Sometimes when you
are in a dark place, you
think you have been
buried, but actually you
have been planted.

Christine Caine
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Aim yourself like
an arrow, and let
go.
Leonardo Da Vinci
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From the errors of
others, a wise man
corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
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Let the man who
enters our house
admire us rather
than our furnishings.
Seneca
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Muddy water is
best cleared by
leaving it alone.
Alan Watts
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We must be careful
who we pretend to
be, because we are
who we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Courage is knowing it
might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same.
And
that’s why life is hard.
Jeremy Goldberg
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I don’t desire to be
a billionaire in the
same way I don’t aspire to exploit people.
Gabriela Sandoval
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Unless you’re
ashamed of yourself
now and then,
you’re not honest.
William Faulkner
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If you could only see
how important you
are to the lives of
those around you.
Fred Rogers
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more
vital and healthy than
our straining and striving
after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov
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Everything I’ve
ever let go of has
claw marks on it.
David Foster Wallace
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You’ve got to work
with your mistakes
until they look
intended.
Raymond Carver
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Yes, you will rise from
the ashes, but the
burning comes first.
For this part, darling,
you must be brave.

Kalen Dion
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The first problem
for all of us is not to
learn, but to
unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
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Home is not where
you were born; home
is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Music is the
can-opener of
the soul.
Henry Miller
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It is not our differences
that divide us.
It is
our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde
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The greatest
danger to our
future is apathy.
Jane Goodall
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I come with empty
hands and a desire
to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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If you can’t do
it with feeling,
don’t.
Patsy Cline
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You’ve got to be willing
to be misunderstood by
some. You’re here to serve
a purpose greater than
people’s opinions of you.

Ash Alves
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In order to realize the
worth of the anchor,
we need to feel the
stress of the storm.
Corrie Ten Boom
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When you are ready
for fireworks instead of sparklers, I
will come for you.
Erin Van Vuren
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Watch carefully the
magic that occurs when
you give a person just
enough comfort to be
themselves.

Atticus
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Our capacity to make peace
with another person and
with the world depends very
much on our capacity to
make peace with ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh
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Talking nonsense is the sole
privilege mankind possesses
over the other organisms. It’s
by talking nonsense that one
gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I was ashamed of myself when I realized
that life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.

Franz Kafka
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Let everything happen
to you: beauty and
terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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If you want a
new idea, read
an old book.
Ivan Pavlov
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Elegance is when
the inside is as
beautiful as the
outside.
Coco Chanel
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There must be something
rotten in the very core of
a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.

Karl Marx
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I guarantee that the seed
you plant in love, no
matter how small, will
grow into a mighty tree
of refuge.

Afeni Shakur
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If you’re not enjoying
something, it’s almost
always because you’re
doing it too fast.
Donna Tartt
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Your days are numbered.
Use them to throw open
the windows of your soul
to the sun.
If you do
not, the sun will set,
and you will set with it.

Marcus Aurelius
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Once a country is
habituated to liars, it
takes generations to
get the truth back.
Gore Vidal
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When one is
pretending, the
entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
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You will never reach
your destination if you
stop and throw stones
at every dog that barks.
Winston Churchill
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To accomplish great
things we must not only
act, but also dream; not
only plan, but also
believe.

Anatole France
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People are almost
always better than
their neighbors
think they are.
George Eliot
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Ideologies separate
us. Dreams and
anguish bring us
together.
Eugene Ionesco
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Know all the theories,
and master all the techniques, but as you touch
a human soul, be just
another human soul.
Carl Jung
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