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#1

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#2

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: adulthood, childhood

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#3

“I am proud to be an emotionalist.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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#4

“Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.”
― Randall Jarrell

tags: art

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#5

“He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#6

“You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

tags: recovery

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#7

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination

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#8

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty, power

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#9

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: relationships

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#10

“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

tags: relationships, talking

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#11

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

tags: divorce, marrige, relationships

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#12

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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#13

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

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#14

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#15

“Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: humor, inspirational

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#16

“...Life is nothing but trading smells.”
― Italo Calvino

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#17

“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

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#18

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exuper

tags: awakening, living, unknown

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#19

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#20

“I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#21

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: inspirational

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#22

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine-de-saint-exupery

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#23

“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
― Pema Chodron

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#24

“...before there can be change there must be discontent.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

tags: change, discontent

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#25

“Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

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#26

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
― John Ruskin

tags: introspection, psychology, self-importance, self-involvement

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#27

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

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#28

“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

tags: prophecy

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#29

“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

tags: inspiration, psychology

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#30

“I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin

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