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    Epictetus
    “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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  • #5
    Victor Borge
    “The shortest distance between two people is a smile.”
    ― Victor Borge
    tags: humor, kindness, music, victor-borge
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  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Tarjei Vesaas
    “Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
    ― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening
    tags: eyes, looking, seeing, speaking, talking
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  • #8
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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  • #9
    Yosa Buson
    “Calligraphy of geese
    against the sky-
    the moon seals it.”
    ― Buson Yosa
    tags: haiku, nature, poetry
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
    ― Goethe
    tags: community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love
    668 likes

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  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: happiness, inspiration, life, wisdom
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  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Time will explain.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: time
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  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #14
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • #15
    Sophia Loren
    “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
    ― Sophia Loren
    tags: beauty, eating, food, pasta, spaghetti
    145 likes

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  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: dreams, supernatural
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    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: managment, science, truism
    290 likes

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    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    ― Charles Schultz
    tags: humor, life, wisdom
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    Howard Nemerov
    “Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, science
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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  • #23
    Carl Sandburg
    “Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: crying, life, simile
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  • #24
    “I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: chores, housekeeping, sears, vacuuming, vacuums
    43 likes

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  • #25
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: inspirational
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5317 likes

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  • #27
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspiration
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    Carl Sagan
    “Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
    ― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
    tags: ecstasy, understanding
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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  • #30
    “Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
    ― Clint Eastwood
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