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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Bohdi Sanders
    “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
    ― Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior
    tags: anger, anger-management, ataraxy, bushido, inner-peace, inspirational, life, life-experience, life-lessons, martial-arts, motivational, self-control, serenity, warrior-ethos, warriors, warriorship, wisdom
    804 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Any one can get angry—that is easy—or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.”
    ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
    tags: anger, classics, ethics, moderation, philanthropy, self-control, virtue
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    Dudjom Rinpoche
    “People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.”
    ― Dudjom Rinpoche, Counsels from My Heart
    tags: buddhism, right-speech, self-control, silence, speech, talk, temperance, tibetan-buddhism, words
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    Dany Laferrière
    “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
    ― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
    tags: happiness, life
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    Elizabeth Scott
    “Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Cassandra Clare
    “All knowledge hurts.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom
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    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: conscience, encouragement, inspiration, life, morality, selfishness, wisdom
    1055 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: greed, wisdom
    1160 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
    tags: sadness, wisdom
    397 likes

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    Holly Black
    “If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
    ― Holly Black, Tithe
    tags: car, curiosity, curious, satisfaction, wisdom
    415 likes

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    Lisa Kleypas
    “There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Married by Morning
    tags: love, romance, sorry, wisdom
    319 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: metaphor
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    Siri Hustvedt
    “I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”
    ― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
    tags: anatomy, love, metaphor, poetry
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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
    11433 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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    Marcel Proust
    “Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
    9959 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
    22970 likes

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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
    21126 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: hope, love
    2386 likes



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