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#1

“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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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#3

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#4

“I’d rather carry on a conversation with myself than crawl the trenches of awkward nothingness.”
― Emery Lord, When We Collided

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#5

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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#6

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#7

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#8

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

tags: vlog

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#9

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion

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#10

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#11

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: giving, helping-others

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#12

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work

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#13

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#14

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others

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#15

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others

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#16

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

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#17

“I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
― charles de lint

tags: compassion, helping-others, inspirational, personal-responsibility

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#18

“Even though Marcus really believed some miracle would happen, he didn't waste a second." He gave a sad, lopsided smile. "So I learned this from my dying brother. Don't waste it."

"Waste what?" she whispered.

He looked at her for a long time. "Everything that makes you.”
― Moriah McStay, Everything That Makes You

tags: contemporary, love, romance, ya

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#19

“If we tried to analyze how every little thing changes us, nobody would get anything done.”
― Moriah McStay, Everything That Makes You

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#20

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation

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#21

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

tags: create, misattributed, problem-solving, thinking

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#22

“If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.”
― Susan Del Gatto

tags: choices, problem-solving, procrastination, stress-management-maintenance

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#23

“No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”
― J.D. Robb, Innocent in Death

tags: fiction, mystery, romance

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#24

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, uncertainty

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#25

“Because I know you, he says tenderly, "and I remember what you sound like when you like something.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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#26

“There aren't words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

tags: love

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