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    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
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    Janet Fitch
    “Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: cradle, enjoy, hate, hatred, humiliate, love, sculpt, soft, tiring, use
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    The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in
    “The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: security
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    Janet Fitch
    “It's such a liability to love another person.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: white-oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “How many people ask you to come share their life?”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: beauty, dare, mother
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  • #9
    Janet Fitch
    “A womans mistakes are different from a girls”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: different, girl, mistake, woman
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  • #10
    Janet Fitch
    “My loneliness tasted like pennies.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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  • #11
    Thomas Hobbes
    “For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: peace, philosophy, war
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  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts
    3194 likes

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  • #15
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
    2186 likes

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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
    5237 likes

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    Janet Fitch
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: loneliness
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    Gail Godwin
    “There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.”
    ― Gail Godwin, The Finishing School
    tags: creativity, development
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    Jay Woodman
    “We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.”
    ― Jay Woodman
    tags: aware, being, consciousness, evolving, expressing
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    Barbara De Angelis
    “If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing, constantly evolving. Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same. So think about it - why would your life be the exception? Why would you be the only thing that exists in all of creation whose purpose isn't to grow?”
    ― Barbara De Angelis, Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment
    tags: changing, evolving, growth, nature, universe
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  • #23
    “Explore, Experiment, Evolve.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita
    tags: evolve, evolving, experience-mistakes-wisdom, experiment, experiment-mistake, experiment-mistakes-quotes, experimental, experimenting-with-time, experiments, explore
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    Rory Miller
    “Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts”
    ― Rory Miller
    tags: butterfly, change, evolving, growing-up, personality, psychology
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    T.H. White
    “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: curiosity, depression, education, learning, teaching
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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: curiosity, leadership, mentoring, teachers, teaching
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  • #28
    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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  • #29
    Phil Collins
    “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
    ― Phil Collins
    tags: education, learning, mentoring, teaching
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
    own.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
    tags: education, learning, teaching
    722 likes



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