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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Shelby Foote
    “I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    tags: mistakes, self-reflection
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    Confucius
    “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
    ― Confucius
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: insomnia, night, sleep
    1658 likes

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    Alan Cohen
    “Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
    ― Alan Cohen
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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P
    tags: insomnia, night
    618 likes

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  • #7
    “I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.”
    ― Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self
    tags: insomnia, personality, sleep
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place
    tags: insomnia, sleeplessness
    304 likes

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    Colette
    “In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
    ― Colette
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
    tags: insomnia
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    Yusuf Islam
    “If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. ”
    ― Cat Stevens
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    Carl Sandburg
    “A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: contemplation, introspection, life, self-reflection
    223 likes

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    Maija Haavisto
    “I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.”
    ― Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
    tags: impatience, irony, patience, self-reflection, time
    15 likes

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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: karma, life
    1743 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: dalai-lama, gyatso, karma
    132 likes

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    Bryant McGill
    “Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
    tags: emotion, observant, self-reflection
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    Jayleigh Cape
    “Without the existance of people to acknowledge or dispute your greatness, your greatness is irrelevant. You are because they are. Without them, no matter how they treat you, you would not exist. Treat all the world as if you owe it your gratitude, because even the cruel and heartless define who you are.”
    ― Jayleigh Cape
    tags: inspirational, jayleigh-cape, karma, philosophy-of-life-people, what-goes-around-comes-around
    33 likes

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    Joyce Cary
    “Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.”
    ― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
    tags: anarchism, anarchists, buddha, church, churches, confucius, einstein, gulley-jimson, karma, plantie, protestantism, vitamins
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    Rick Riordan
    “Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: fate, karma
    91 likes

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    Ravi Shankar
    “Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
    One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
    Rely on your Self; self-reliance”
    ― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
    tags: karma, life-philosophy
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    Gary Hopkins
    “Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force.”
    ― Gary Hopkins
    tags: energy-healing, enlightenment, god, higher-self, holy-spirit, inspirational, karma, oneness, spiritual-growth, spirituality
    6 likes

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    Ashly Lorenzana
    “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
    ― Ashly Lorenzana
    tags: empathy, fairness, karma, life, role-reversal
    175 likes

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  • #23
    “But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
    128 likes

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  • #26
    Will Smith
    “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/”
    ― Will Smith
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  • #27
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17588 likes

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  • #28
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
    3602 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
    1779 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
    tags: magic
    2615 likes



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