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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: brave, inspirational
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: decisiveness, inaction, just-do-it, timidity, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: personal-responsibility, self-empowerment
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, preparedness, strategy
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  • #9
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
    tags: inspirational
    967 likes

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    Charlie Chaplin
    “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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  • #21
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
    tags: horror, lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I have seen the dark universe yawning
    Where the black planets roll without aim,
    Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
    Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis
    tags: dark-universe, horror
    509 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple
    tags: cthulu, madness
    431 likes



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