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#1

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

tags: latin, philosophy, stars

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: scars, souls, suffering

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#4

“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: adolescence, humor, nerdiness, ray-bradbury, science-fiction

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#5

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
― John von Neumann

tags: life, math, maths

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#6

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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#7

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

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“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: acquaintances, advice, caring, caring-for-others, catholic, catholic-author, christian, companion, constructive-criticism, criticism, flattery, friend, friends, friendship, gadfly, hard-truths, human-nature, people, tough-love, true-friends, true-love, truth, wisdom, wise-sayings

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#9

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: sacrifice

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#10

“The nature of the game as it is played is such that the public should realize that the truth cannot be told by the few who know.”
― Jesse Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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#11

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: loneliness, longing

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#12

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

tags: ethics, happyness, morality

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“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

tags: humans, loneliness, lonely-people, relationships

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