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#1

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: alcohol, bukowski

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#2

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#3

“You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: enterprise, planning

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#4

“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: cities, colors, darkness, dejan-stojanovic, eagle, ethereal, eyes, face, face-of-a-woman, feel, feelings, fly, flying, imperceptible, invisible, know, lantern, leaves, matter, memory, moment, moon, mountain, pedestrian, planning, poetry, poets, power, read, reality, shapes, shine, smile, soul, sounds, stormy-day, streets, substances, task-of-a-poet, tree, umbrella, understanding, watching, wave, whisper, world

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#5

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

tags: clarke, mice-men, planning, plans, unpredictability

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#6

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

tags: destiny, life, planning

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#7

“Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

tags: action, holism, interdependence, planning, relationship, understanding

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#8

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved

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#9

“A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.”
― Paul Johnson

tags: art, inspirational, planning

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#10

“No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Journal of Leo Tolstoy

tags: planning, readiness

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#11

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#12

“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: experience, growing-up, innocence, life, loss-of-innocence, truths, youth

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#13

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#14

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence

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#15

“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#16

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#17

“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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#18

“Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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#19

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

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#20

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: happiness-fulfillment-desire

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#21

“Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

tags: lds, religious, uplifting

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#22

“We learn to do by doing.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

tags: learning

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#23

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

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#24

“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

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#25

“Do it.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

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#26

“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

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#27

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

tags: life-lessons

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#28

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
― Judith McNaught, Remember When

tags: attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-lessons, robert-foster

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#29

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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#30

“I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things.You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: inspiration, life, life-lessons, love, paulo-coelho

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