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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
    tags: passion
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Beverly Sills
    “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
    ― Beverly Sills
    tags: dedication, determination, hard-work
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    William Jennings Bryan
    “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
    ― William Jennings Bryan
    tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: future, life, past
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    Mother Teresa
    “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, fils
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The future depends on what you do today.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present
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    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Autumn Christian
    “if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It's not because I believe God and the rest of the monsters are evil. I only wish to have the capacity to change. To know that we have the ability to take a different direction than the one presented to us. That is more important than good and evil. Than life or death.”
    ― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine
    tags: atheism, christianity, free-will, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
    tags: patience, patient, water
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    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Robert Henri
    “Do whatever you do intensely.”
    ― Robert Henri
    tags: art
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    ― Wystan Hugh Auden
    tags: human-nature, poetry
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    Alan Lightman
    “The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”
    ― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
    tags: human-nature, loneliness, tragedy
    215 likes

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    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: music, power-of-music
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  • #30
    Marilyn Manson
    “Music is the strongest form of magic.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
    675 likes



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