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#1

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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#2

“You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.”
― Felicia Day

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#3

“Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.”
― William Battie

tags: confidence, individuality, style

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#4

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#5

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: inspirational

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#6

“Kindness is the greatest wealth of all. Small acts of kindness last longer than a lifetime. This lesson, that kindness and generosity and faith in your fellow man are more important than money, is the first and greatest lesson my father ever taught me. And in this way he will always be with us, and always live forever.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness

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#7

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

tags: friendship, incredibly-true, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, trust

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#8

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

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#9

“Ideas are not like fine china, ideas are like paper cups —
they are cheap to manufacture, and when one has holes in it, go get another one.”
― Jesse Schell

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#10

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

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#11

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

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#12

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

tags: mistakes

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#13

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates

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#14

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#15

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

tags: classics, education

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#16

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”
― Louise Gluck

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#17

“A field is empty, but if you put in the effort to grow something then you will have a garden. And that’s life. Give something, something will come back. Give nothing, nothing will come back. To grow a flower is a miracle: it means you can grow more. Remember that a flower is not just a flower, it is the start of a whole garden.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

tags: generosity, inspirational, kindness

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#18

“If enough people had stood up then, on Kristallnacht, and said, ‘Enough! What are you doing? What is wrong with you?’ then the course of history would have been different. But they did not. They were scared. They were weak. And their weakness allowed them to be manipulated into hatred.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

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#19

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien

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#20

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#21

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#22

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: inspirational, social-justice

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#23

“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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#24

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: humour, science, wisdom

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#25

“But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth.”
― JRR Tolkien

tags: lotr, tolkien

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#26

“I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: hobbit, tolkien

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#27

“I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.”
― Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super

tags: life

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