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  • #1
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Light
    Light
    The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: light, poetry
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  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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  • #4
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: love
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  • #5
    Coco Chanel
    “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: individuality
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  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
    ― R. Buckminster Fuller
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  • #8
    Jack London
    “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time
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  • #9
    John Steinbeck
    “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
    ― John Steinbeck
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    C.S. Lewis
    “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
    tags: humanity, observation
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  • #11
    bell hooks
    “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
    ― bell hooks
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  • #12
    Jonathan Haidt
    “Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”
    ― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
    tags: flourishing, fulfillment, happiness, love, people, plants, sunshine, water, work
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  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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  • #14
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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  • #15
    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
    Its loveliness increases; it will never
    Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
    A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: inspirational
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  • #16
    John Keats
    “Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
    ― John Keats
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  • #17
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9997 likes

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  • #19
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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  • #20
    Garth Stein
    “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: honor, inspiration
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  • #21
    Martin Luther
    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: inspiration, perseverance
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  • #22
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I ask not for any crown
    But that which all may win;
    Nor try to conquer any world
    Except the one within.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: inspiration, wisdom
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  • #23
    Henry David Thoreau
    “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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  • #24
    Yukio Mishima
    “Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors
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  • #25
    Yukio Mishima
    “There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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  • #26
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: design, exupery, perfection
    1184 likes

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  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint - Exupery
    tags: the-little-prince
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  • #28
    A.W. Tozer
    “Rules for Self Discovery:
    1. What we want most;
    2. What we think about most;
    3. How we use our money;
    4. What we do with our leisure time;
    5. The company we enjoy;
    6. Who and what we admire;
    7. What we laugh at.”
    ― A. W. Tozer
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  • #29
    A.W. Tozer
    “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
    ― A. W. Tozer
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  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
    2288 likes



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