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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I smiled,—for what had I to fear?”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: heartache, loss, love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
    some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
    some lose both and become accepted”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
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    Jane Goodall
    “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    Ayn Rand
    “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “When people are free to choose, they choose freedom”
    ― Margaret Thatcher, The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher
    tags: freedom, government, liberty
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  • #15
    “The meaning of happiness consists in three elements — freedom, gratitude, and the sense of wonder.”
    ― Alan Watts
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  • #16
    “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”
    ― Alan Watts
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  • #17
    “You are under no obligation to be the person you were five minutes ago.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7601 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: entitlement, self-reliance
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Carl Sagan
    “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: perspective
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  • #23
    “I can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because thornbushes have roses.”
    ― Sir John Templeton, Templeton Plan: 21 Steps to Personal Success and Real Happiness
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  • #24
    “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
    ― Sir John Templeton
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    Coco Chanel
    “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
    7229 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
    4226 likes

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    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
    820 likes

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    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
    3355 likes



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