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#1

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

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#2

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

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#3

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

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#4

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#5

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

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#6

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

tags: inspirational, my-psalm

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#7

“I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.”
― Robert Bly, A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self

tags: proud, tenderness

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#8

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

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#9

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

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#10

“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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#11

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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#12

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

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#13

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

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#14

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#15

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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#16

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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#17

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#18

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#19

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

tags: life

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#20

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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#21

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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#22

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#23

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#24

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#25

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#26

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#27

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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#28

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#29

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

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#30

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

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