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#1

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#2

“No friendship is an accident. ”
― O. Henry, Heart of the West

tags: friendship

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#3

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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#4

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

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#5

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars

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#6

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

tags: inspiration, love, story-people

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#7

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: adversity, hope, trust

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#8

“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

tags: goodbye, helpfulness, leaving

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#9

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...”
― John Mayer, John Mayer - Battle Studies

tags: goodbye, love

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#10

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

tags: change, courage, fear, life

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#11

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, motivational, women

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#12

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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#13

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#14

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: imagination

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#15

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

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#16

“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: douglass, frederick-douglass, freedom, literacy, reading, slavery

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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: books, civilization, education, history, knowledge, libraries, wisdom

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#18

“When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

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#19

“I wish the night would end,
I wish the day'd begin,
I wish it would rain or snow,
or the wind would blow,
or the grass would grow,
I wish I had yesterday,
I wish there were games to play...”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

tags: death, love, nature, sadness, siblings, song-lyrics

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#20

“Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.”
― Issa

tags: haiku, nature, poetry

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#21

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

tags: change, climate, nature, sky, soul, travel

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#22

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
― Samuel Butler

tags: autumn, fruit, nature

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#23

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: bees, earth, love, nature

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#24

“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: antipathy, drama, green, literature, nature, poetry, writing

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#25

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
― Jimmy Carter

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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#26

“If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: environment, experiences, gadfly, influence, influences, observations, proverb, proverbial-wisdom, senses, senses-of-the-the-soul, wisdom, wise-sayings, you-are-what-you-eat

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#27

“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
― Basava, The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa

tags: cynic, ecology, egb, ozymandias, path, quantum, shiva

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#28

“Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: fun, nature, science

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#29

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: nature

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#30

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: truth, values

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