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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Arthur Rubinstein
    “Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
    ― Arthur Rubinstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Cyril Connolly
    “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

    [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
    ― Cyril Connolly
    tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Albert Einstein
    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: crazy, question, thought-provoking
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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    Charles Dickens
    “Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”
    ― Charles Dickens
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    Martin Buber
    “The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”
    ― Martin Buber
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    Martin Buber
    “We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.”
    ― Martin Buber
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    Martin Buber
    “And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision. ”
    ― Martin Buber, I and Thou
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
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    Arthur Golden
    “Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: adversity
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: disguises, secret
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
    ― Duc De La Francois Rochefoucauld
    tags: ugly-truths
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    Karl Kraus
    “A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
    ― Karl Kraus
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, self-improvement, self-knowledge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope
    119 likes



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