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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
    Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
    tags: anne-of-green-gables, empowering, inspirational
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: sansa-stark
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  • #7
    Carrie Fisher
    “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: art, fisher, gold, streep, trump
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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    Yi Sun-sin
    “Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”
    ― Sun-sin Yi
    tags: admiral, korea, myeongnyang, yi-sun-shin, 이순신
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness. For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: life-and-living
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
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    Tracey Emin
    “I don’t believe in love, but I believe in you.”
    ― Tracey Emin
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    Jane Goodall
    “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
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    Jim Rohn
    “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: life
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: feminism, inspirational, jo-march, life, little-women
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    Voltaire
    “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Voltaire
    “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers
    571 likes

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    Voltaire
    “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: health-care, medicine
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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic
    380 likes

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  • #28
    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #29
    Cesare Pavese
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
    ― Cesare Pavese
    tags: life, memory
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114362 likes



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