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    Joe Hill
    “Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”
    ― Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
    tags: divorce, mariage, voluntary-committal
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
    8571 likes

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    Stephen King
    “When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.”
    ― Stephen King
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
    8726 likes

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    T.F. Hodge
    “Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: attitude, elevate, encouragement, game, hearts, horizon, inner-peace, lonesomeness, negative-attitude, positivity, quotes
    96 likes

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  • #6
    “The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.”
    ― Amy Gatliff
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: attributed-no-source
    11871 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
    13372 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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  • #12
    “You might have a past..but guess what? You have a future, too.”
    ― Krystal Volney
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    “If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.”
    ― Krystal Volney
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    “If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.”
    ― Robert Anthony
    tags: beliefs, life
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    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: inspirational
    2584 likes

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    Tyra Banks
    “Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
    ― Tyra Banks
    tags: be-yourself, confidence, inspirational, self-expression, shine
    1115 likes

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    Robert Jordan
    “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
    ― Robert Jordan, To the Blight
    tags: foolishness, war
    478 likes

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  • #18
    “You can only please some humans some of the times, so why even bother?”
    ― Jenneive M. Johnson, Epics of an Odyssey 2: Memoirs of a Dreamer
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    Criss Jami
    “As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: beliefs, development, inquiry, learning, legacy, maturity, philosophy, questioning, thinking, time, truth, writing
    15 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148355 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: beginning, fresh-start, start-over, today
    584 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gildor
    1221 likes

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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Bunyan
    “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
    ― John Bunyan
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others
    944 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn
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    Justin Cronin
    “What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”
    ― Justin Cronin, The Passage
    tags: darkness, life
    167 likes

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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
    tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights
    538 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4800 likes

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    N.K. Jemisin
    “If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin
    tags: being-an-asshat, bigotry, political-correctness, racism
    13 likes

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  • #30
    “There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

    Morpheus, The Matrix”
    ― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script
    40 likes



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