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#1

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#2

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#4

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll

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#5

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

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#6

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#7

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

tags: new-england-wisdom

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#8

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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#9

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#10

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry

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#11

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

tags: inspirational

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#12

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

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#13

“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry

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#14

“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
― Robert Frost, The Letters Of Robert Frost To Louis Untermeyer

tags: emotions, poem, poetry

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#15

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift

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#16

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste

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#17

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#18

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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#19

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: inspirational

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#20

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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#21

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy

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#22

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin

tags: dreams, life, love

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#23

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

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#24

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: gonzo, happiness, risk

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#25

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

tags: reading, writing

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#26

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: caged, fear, gender-roles

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#27

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth

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#28

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: action, actions, communication, curiosity, honest, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, integrity-quotes, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, speak, speaking

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#29

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: freedom

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#30

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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