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    Fernando Pessoa
    “When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: social-anxiety
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: dreams, longing, regret, self
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  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: dreams, fearless, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #4
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
    If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: goal, goals, gratitude, happiness, 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
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  • #5
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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  • #6
    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: motivational, work
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  • #8
    Robert Jordan
    “Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: mat-cauthon
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    Robert Jordan
    “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
    ― Robert Jordan, New Spring
    tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot
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    Robert Jordan
    “One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
    tags: inspirational, lord-of-chaos, military, military-quote, one-more-dance, robert-jordan
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  • #11
    Robert Jordan
    “The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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  • #12
    Robert Jordan
    “Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    Robert Jordan
    “In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
    ― Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords
    tags: cruelty, laugh, weep
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  • #14
    Robert Jordan
    “We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
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  • #15
    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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  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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  • #17
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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  • #20
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #21
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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  • #23
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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  • #25
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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  • #29
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    1008 likes



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