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    Cecelia Ahern
    “Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, The Year I Met You
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    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel, wanderlust
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: thoughtful
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Pau Casals
    “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
    ― Pablo Casals
    tags: art, music, power-of-music
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    Pau Casals
    “I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.”
    ― Pablo Casals
    tags: aging, inspirational, life, mortality
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    Pau Casals
    “Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.”
    ― Pablo Casals
    tags: abilities, ability, gifts, service, talent, talents
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: poetry, wisdom
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman
    tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #19
    “there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”
    ― Stephen Clarke, 1000 Years of Annoying the French
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    Brené Brown
    “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.”
    ― Brene Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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    Brené Brown
    “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: courage, truth, vulnerability, weakness
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    Brené Brown
    “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: empathy, listening, shame, speaking
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  • #23
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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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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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
    But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: love
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: love
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  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Emily St. John Mandel
    “Survival is insufficient.”
    ― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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    Emily St. John Mandel
    “First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
    ― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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