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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: understanding
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Jaachynma N.E. Agu
    “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
    ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
    tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth
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  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #6
    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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  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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  • #8
    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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  • #9
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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  • #10
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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  • #12
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: humor, inspirational
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  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #17
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
    8832 likes

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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8469 likes

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  • #20
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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  • #21
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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  • #23
    Jarod Kintz
    “I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?”
    ― Jarod Kintz
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  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor, school
    490 likes

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  • #25
    “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
    ― Harold Howe
    tags: education, libraries, library, school
    367 likes

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  • #26
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
    tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school
    575 likes

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    Jean Piaget
    “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
    ― Jean Piaget
    tags: education, school, schooling, schools
    315 likes

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  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: colleges, genius, home-schooling, humor, school
    124 likes

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  • #29
    Murray N. Rothbard
    “It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.”
    ― Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free & Compulsory
    tags: education, school
    172 likes

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  • #31
    John Irving
    “In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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