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    Allen Saunders
    “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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Mother Teresa
    “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    1981 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
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    Mother Teresa
    “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: charity, giving, love
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    Mother Teresa
    “It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: spirituality
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    Mother Teresa
    “When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: judgement
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: gratitude, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thoughts
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  • #24
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: be-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: authentic-living, awareness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, perception
    1911 likes

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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: blessing, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
    3372 likes



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