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    Tammara Webber
    “Sisters in solidarity and all that shit.”
    ― Tammara Webber, Easy
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    Henry Beston
    “Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?”
    ― Henry Beston, The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    “A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
    tags: inspirational
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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    John Green
    “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: humor, inspirational, obvious, stupid
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    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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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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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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  • #12
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
    tags: inspiration, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Brian Andreas
    “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
    ― Brian Andreas, Story People
    tags: inspiration, love, story-people
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    ― Elinor Glyn
    tags: inspiration, love, romance
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    Mary Kay Ash
    “Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
    ― Mary Kay Ash
    tags: inspiration, resourcefulness
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise
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    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg
    tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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    Babe Ruth
    “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
    ― George Herman Ruth
    tags: hard-work, inspiration, teamwork
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    Morgan Matson
    “Tomorrow will be better.”
    “But what if it’s not?” I asked.
    “Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
    ― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
    tags: inspiration
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    Ayn Rand
    “Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: career, inspiration, life
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    Sharon Salzberg
    “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg
    tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
    ― Karen E. Quinones Miller
    tags: confidence, determination, inspiration, motivation, negativity, self-confidence
    1870 likes



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