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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended
    “I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
    ― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
    tags: anna-funder, anxiety, calm, freedom, gdr, germany, purpose, rhymn, trains
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
    tags: accomplished, actions, fables, failure, frustration, necessary, nostalgia, peace, time
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches
    tags: childhood, children, future, parenthood, parenting
    687 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I am your moon and your moonlight too
    I am your flower garden and your water too
    I have come all this way, eager for you
    Without shoes or shawl
    I want you to laugh
    To kill all your worries
    To love you
    To nourish you.”
    ― Rumi
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Madeline Miller
    “It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Denise Levertov
    “In the dark I rest,
    unready for the light which dawns
    day after day,
    eager to be shared.
    Black silk, shelter me.
    I need
    more of the night before I open
    eyes and heart
    to illumination. I must still
    grow in the dark like a root
    not ready, not ready at all.”
    ― Denise Levertov
    tags: darkness, night, poetry
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16753 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: desire, inspirational, make-a-difference, motivation
    577 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
    ― vladimir nabokov, Lolita
    tags: erotic, humorous, insprirational
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    Veronica Franco
    “So sweet and delicious do I become,
    when I am in bed with a man
    who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
    that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
    so the knot of love, however tight
    it seemed before, is tied tighter still.”
    ― Veronica Franco, Poems and Selected Letters
    tags: courtesan, erotic, pleasure, poetry, sex
    286 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “so I wait for you like a lonely house
    till you will see me again and live in me.
    Till then my windows ache.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done ...”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: monroe
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    Dorothy M. Richardson
    “Stream of consciousness is a muddle-headed phrase. It is not a stream, it’s a pool, a sea, an ocean.”
    ― Dorothy M. Richardson
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    E.M. Forster
    “You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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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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    Harper Lee
    “Things are always better in the morning.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: optimism, renewal
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    Seneca
    “But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: war, ww1
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    John Steinbeck
    “All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”
    ― steinbeck
    tags: anxiety, pensive, spirituality, thought, worry
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    Tahir Shah
    “My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
    ― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
    tags: culture, heritage, stories, storytelling
    443 likes

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  • #27
    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: goodbye
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    A.A. Milne
    “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

    (The Record Lie)”
    ― A.A. Milne, If I May
    tags: independent-thought, quotations, quotes
    801 likes

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  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    8699 likes



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