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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
    tags: missed-chances, opportunities
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  • #3
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Humankind above all is lazy.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
    tags: harriet, lazy
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    Alexander Graham Bell
    “Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
    ― Alexander Graham Bell
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  • #5
    Alexander Graham Bell
    “Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”
    ― Alexander Graham Bell
    tags: development, new, path, way
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  • #6
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Live and learn and pass it on.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational-life
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  • #7
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspiration
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  • #9
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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  • #10
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown, The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
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  • #11
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: expensive-opportunity
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  • #12
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: right-and-wrong
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  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #14
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: bilbo-baggins
    308 likes

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  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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  • #21
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12468 likes



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