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    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: inspirational
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    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare
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    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
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    José Martí
    “Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
    ― Jose Marti
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    W.H. Auden
    “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems
    tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Edward Hirsch
    “I am a tiny seashell
    that has secretly drifted ashore
    and carries the sound of the ocean
    surging through its body.”
    ― Edward Hirsch
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    Toni Morrison
    “And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: jamie-fraser
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: cruelty, impact
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Sophocles
    “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: philosophy
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Henry Ford
    “When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”
    ― Henry Ford
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: success
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: bladders, humor, movies
    199 likes

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    Galileo Galilei
    “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
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    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    ― Anthony G. Oettinger
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time
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  • #23
    “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”
    ― Tommy Smothers
    tags: censorship, ideas
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
    20997 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    James Dickey
    “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
    ― James Dickey
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: death, humor
    3472 likes

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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
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    Robert Benchley
    “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
    ― Robert Benchley
    tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed
    1987 likes



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