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    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Pablo Picasso
    “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity
    947 likes

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    Freddie Mercury
    “I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: art, entertainment, music, performance, prostitution
    257 likes

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    Termina Ashton
    “Imagination is Everything!”
    ― Termina Ashton
    tags: art, imagination, writing
    88 likes

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    Kate Chopin
    “The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories
    tags: art
    171 likes

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “The beautiful is always bizarre.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: art, baudelaire, beauty, life
    698 likes

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    Cory Doctorow
    “Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
    ― Cory Doctorow
    tags: communication, internet, media
    40 likes

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    Confucius
    “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity
    408 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
    ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    tags: brevity, etiquette, politeness, sincerity
    128 likes

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  • #10
    “Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.”
    ― Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
    tags: introversion
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    Mark Twain
    “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: eating-disorders, recovery
    482 likes

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    Lemmy Kilmister
    “Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”
    ― Lemmy Kilmister
    tags: bullshit, lemmy, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: atheism, freethinking
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
    ― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
    tags: beauty, happiness, joy
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
    This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
    "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: stress
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    “A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a mood that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.”
    ― John Blofeld, The Chinese Art of Tea
    tags: refreshment, soothing, stress, tea, therapy
    28 likes

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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: acceptance, death-and-dying, serenity
    383 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    Tom Giaquinto
    “Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!”
    ― Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
    tags: attitude, choice, exercise, frustation, happiness, happy, nap, positive, smile, smiling, think, thinking, tranquility
    16 likes

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    The Beatles
    “And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be”
    ― The Beatles
    tags: peace, tranquility
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Work. Don't Think. Relax.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational, relaxation, writing
    44 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Sylvia Plath
    “So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
    tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness
    1603 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect!”
    ― E.M. Forster, Howards End
    148 likes



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