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    Bertrand Russell
    “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    Jake Remington
    “Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm.'
    The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.'
    Unknown”
    ― Jake Remington
    tags: warrior
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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
    tags: love, women
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
    tags: humor, love, suicide, women
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
    tags: love, men, women
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    Gore Vidal
    “Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
    5585 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: love
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Stefan Zweig
    “For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
    ― Stefan Zweig
    tags: blame, brutality, evil, life, realize, weakness, world, worst
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    Tara Brach
    “When you know you're the ocean, you're not afraid of the waves.”
    ― Tara Brach
    tags: fearless, inspirational
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
    3167 likes



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