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#1

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

tags: boccaccio, clarity, mind, power, read

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#2

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: bitter, brave, bravery, cruel, cruelty, glass, identity, inspiration, inspirational, introspection, lesson, medicine, mirror, on-the-road, quiet, road, silence, travel, traveler, truth, wayfarer

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#3

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#4

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#5

“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being

tags: being, freedom, life, understanding

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#6

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”
― Bobbe Sommer

tags: egotism, happiness, modesty, opinion, precondition, regard, sef, self-destruction, success, unique

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#7

“People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

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#8

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

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#9

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding

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#10

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: enemies, explanations, friends

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#11

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

tags: friends, moving-on, understanding

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#12

“You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: authentic-living, be-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#13

“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
― Erica Jong

tags: life-lessons

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#14

“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.”
― Jean Webster

tags: enjoy, goals, happiness, life, rat-race

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#15

“There is never a good time for a lazy and there is ever a bad time for a hard worker”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

tags: bad-time, good-time, lazy-quotes, workers-day, workers-quotes

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#16

“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: beauty, elegance, glamour, grace, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, mystery, quotes-for-women, style, women-s-inspirational, women-s-quotes

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#17

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

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#18

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

tags: a-song-of-ice-and-fire, friendship, george-r-r-martin, summer, winter

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#19

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

tags: music, sad

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#20

“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: compromise, discontentment, happiness, perseverance, progression, rational, risk-taking, running, safety, stability, success

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#21

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

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#22

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
― Maya Angelou

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#23

“If you ask what the ten things that improve the quality of this rude world are, I would say one right away: Elegance!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: elegance, elegance-quote, elegance-quotes, elegant, elegant-people, elegant-quotes, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes

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#24

“The mission of elegance is to defeat the ugliness of rudeness with beauty and thus create a more courteous world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: courteous, elegance, elegance-quote, elegance-quotes, elegant, elegant-quotes, gentler, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes

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#25

“Good taste and the amount of money spent are interrelated but not necessarily dependent on each other.”
― Anne Fogarty, Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

tags: anne-fogarty, elegance, fashion, fashion-advice, good-taste, personal-style, taste, wife-dressing

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#26

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

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#27

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16165 likes

#28

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-roald-dahl, paraphrase-of-horace, play, relaxation

1486 likes

#29

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: hope, inevitability, spring

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#30

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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