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    “Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
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    “We're running out of time, he said.

    As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.
    But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It's endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.
    We have plenty of time, is what Castle should have said. We have all the time in the world, is what he should have said to me. But he didn't because what he meant tick tock is that our time tick tock is shifting. It's hurtling forward heading in an entirely new direction slamming face-first into something else and
    tick
    tick
    tick
    tick
    tick
    it's almost
    time for war”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: castle, juliette-chronicles, juliette-ferrars, life, reality, tahereh-mafi, time, unravel-me
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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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    Iveta Cherneva
    “Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.”
    ― Iveta Cherneva
    tags: history, leadership, risk-taking, timidity
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  • #5
    Gina Greenlee
    “What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something
    you’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.”
    ― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
    tags: choose-your-own-path, choose-yourself, comfort-zone, give-yourself-permission, go-for-it, just-do-it, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quotes, permission, permission-to-win, risk-it, risk-taking, self-transcendence, self-transformation, self-trust, trust, trust-yourself, try-something-new
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    E.K. Johnston
    “All this time, I had had access to more power than I had imagined, and I had missed it because I saw with men's eyes. I had forgotten the girls who scrubbed the floors and spun the yarn. I had forgotten the women who dyed the cloth and worked with henna.”
    ― E.K. Johnston
    tags: a-thousand-nights
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    William Faulkner
    “I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
    ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “it seemed to me that I had never met
    another person on earth
    as discouraging to my happiness
    as my father.
    and it appeared that I had
    the same effect upon
    him.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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    Charles Bukowski
    “some men never
    die
    and some men never
    live

    but we're all alive
    tonight.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “when we were kids
    laying around the lawn
    on our
    bellies

    we often talked
    about
    how
    we'd like to
    die

    and
    we all
    agreed on the
    same
    thing;

    we'd all
    like to die
    fucking

    (although
    none of us
    had
    done any
    fucking)

    and now
    that
    we are hardly
    kids
    any longer

    we think more
    about
    how
    not to
    die

    and
    although
    we're
    ready

    most of
    us
    would
    prefer to
    do it
    alone

    under the
    sheets

    now
    that

    most of
    us

    have fucked
    our lives
    away.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: adulthood, bukowski, death, die, growing-up, kids, life, love, nostalgia, poem, poetry, sex
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
    "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
    "Yes. I want to ruin you."
    "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: infatuation, love
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: a-farewell-to-arms, ernest-hemingway, love
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #21
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #22
    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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  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #24
    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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #27
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #28
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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