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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: afghanistan, drama, the-kite-runner
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    “Detta är en sann historia
    - men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig.
    I verkligheten var allt mycket värre...”
    ― Birgitta Andersson, Blondie
    tags: biography
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
    And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
    But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
    And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
    For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
    Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
    Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
    For the soul walks upon all paths.
    The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
    The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: depth, growth, poetry, soul, truth
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    Charles Dickens
    “Keep my memory green.”
    ― Charles Dickens
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: illiteracy, politics
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
    tags: blog, inspirational, life
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today...

    ...some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    ― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
    tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest
    1226 likes

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    Charlie Chaplin
    “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin, My life in pictures
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    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
    1138 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: comfort
    2504 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
    5118 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: bright, dark, moon
    1432 likes

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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
    2895 likes

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  • #24
    “I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.”
    ― Saladin
    tags: daniel-silva, from-the-fallen-angel
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    Noam Chomsky
    “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: philosophy
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: elections, government, money, power, social-constructs, tax, taxpayers, vote, voters
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    Julian Barnes
    “Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: age, history, life, meaning, memory, philosophy, rest, time
    86 likes

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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
    tags: affection, compassion, irony, kindness, love, loving, loving-others, loving-someone, relationships, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
    4720 likes



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