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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: living
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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  • #3
    Louise Glück
    “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
    ― Louise Gluck
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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  • #5
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: dreams, fearless, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #10
    Roberto Calasso
    “The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”
    ― Roberto Calasso
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: gratitude, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thoughts
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  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: beatitudes, paraphrased
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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: life, waiting
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  • #14
    Stephen Richards
    “Happy people produce. Bored people consume.”
    ― Stephen Richards
    tags: cosmic-ordering, focus, goal-setting, happiness, law-of-attraction, manifestation, millionaire-mindset, mind-power, new-age, opportunity, positivity, self-help, spirituality, stephen-richards, success, visualization
    239 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    659 likes

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  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: amusement, commentary, humor, snark
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  • #17
    Melissa Marr
    “Like chaos in a glass cage.”
    ― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows
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  • #18
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60257 likes

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  • #20
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64646 likes

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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?'
    'Yes,' said Tiffany.
    'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...'
    'Yes?'
    '... and believe in your dreams ...'
    'Yes?'
    '... and follow your star ...' Miss Tick went on.
    'Yes?'
    '... you'll still get beaten by people who spent THEIR time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: ambition
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  • #24
    Ferreira Gullar
    “Art exists because life is not enough.”
    ― Ferreira Gullar
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  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
    1831 likes

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  • #27
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1756 likes

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  • #28
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: answers, questions, science
    660 likes

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  • #29
    “Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
    ― Annette Messager
    tags: artists, sensibility
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  • #30
    Gretchen Rubin
    “Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
    ― Gretchen Rubin Voltaire
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