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    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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  • #2
    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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5650 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
    7934 likes

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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5981 likes

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  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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  • #8
    John Steinbeck
    “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
    ― John Steinbeck
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: change, opportunity, self-determination, wisdom
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  • #11
    “We are the music-makers,
    And we are the dreamers of dreams,
    Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
    And sitting by desolate streams.
    World-losers and world-forsakers,
    Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
    Yet we are the movers and shakers,
    Of the world forever, it seems.”
    ― Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: change, courage, dream, dreams, inspirational, music
    860 likes

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  • #12
    Thomas L. Friedman
    “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
    ― Thomas Friedman
    tags: change, optimism, pessimism
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    William James
    “To change one’s life:
    1. Start immediately.
    2. Do it flamboyantly.
    3. No exceptions.”
    ― William James
    tags: change
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  • #14
    Aberjhani
    “Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: aberjhani, inspirational-quotes, metaphysics, philosophy, poetry, self-esteem, spirituality, stars, truth, world-suicide-prevention-day
    301 likes

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    A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
    “Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.”
    ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    213 likes

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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: cake, cakes, happiness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, joy, life, life-and-living, living, looking-no-further, the-way-of-the-cake, the-way-to-happiness, understanding-happiness, understanding-joy
    90 likes

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  • #17
    “You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful so eat the damn red velvet cupcake!”
    ― Emma Stones
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  • #18
    Henry James
    “It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: ecology, inspirational-quotes, nature, trees
    814 likes

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  • #20
    Casi McLean
    “The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.”
    ― Casi McLean
    tags: dream-quotes, dreams, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes
    109 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    164 likes

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar
    tags: expect, experiment, explore, fail, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, succeed
    121 likes

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  • #23
    “I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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  • #24
    Caroline Gerardo
    “Being ready is everything.”
    ― Caroline Gerardo, Toxic Assets
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: writing
    645 likes

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    John Green
    “The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”
    ― John Green
    tags: dancing, funny, writing
    368 likes

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  • #27
    Lee Child
    “Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
    ― Lee Child
    tags: writing
    277 likes

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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: aliteracy, bad-reviews, self-publishing, writing
    425 likes

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  • #29
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
    ― Mario Vargas-Llosa
    tags: books, writing
    367 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
    111 likes



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