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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: ghosts, haunt
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  • #3
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    E.E. Cummings
    “I will take the sun in my mouth
    and leap into the ripe air
    Alive
    with closed eyes
    to dash against darkness”
    ― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954
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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Jack London
    “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
    ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild
    tags: joy, life, nature
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Kent M. Keith
    “ The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
    tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world
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  • #10
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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  • #11
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
    For I would ride with you upon the wind,
    Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
    And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
    tags: dance, faeries, mountains, wind, world
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But if you tame me, then we
    shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
    shall be unique in all the world.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: me, need, world, you
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    Aldous Huxley
    “All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
    "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
    There was a long silence.
    "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love, world
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  • #21
    Banksy
    “There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”
    ― Banksy
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  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
    tags: choke, pieces, world
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  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: chose, everything, heavy, never, nothing, tired, to-bear, world
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  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: chords, edge, emptiness, loop, signs, space, substance, world
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  • #25
    Seán O'Casey
    “All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
    ― Seán O'Casey
    tags: destiny, drama, fate, humanity, humankind, humor, life, stage, theater, world
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  • #26
    Jack Kerouac
    “Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: reality, silence, world
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  • #27
    Ellen Hopkins
    “...what good would it
    do to
    shutter your windows, never
    dream of rainbows or find hope
    in promises? Why choose to
    walk away
    rather than hold your ground
    and fight for love?”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
    tags: ellen-hopkins, verse, young-adult
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  • #28
    E. Lockhart
    “She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: friendship-and-love, we-were-liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: beautiful, e-lockhart, haunting, we-were-liars
    96 likes



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