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#1

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#2

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

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#3

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: excellence

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“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”
― Michael Jordan

tags: basketball, excellence, sporting-advice

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#5

“People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: excellence, service

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#6

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: excellence

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#7

“bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself”
― Publius Syrus

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#8

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership

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#9

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

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#10

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
― Robert Schuller

tags: enterprise, inspirational, preparation

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#11

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
― Bruce Feirstein

tags: genius, insanity, success, truth

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#12

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others

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#13

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#14

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

tags: education, homeschool

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#15

“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
― Pope John Paul II

tags: john-paul-ii, violence

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#16

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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#17

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#18

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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#19

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#20

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#21

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

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#22

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#23

“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

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#24

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, love

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#25

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#26

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

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#27

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#28

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#29

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#30

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

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