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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: happiness, inspirational
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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  • #11
    “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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    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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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Confucius
    “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: inspirational, mistake
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    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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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Oliver James
    “why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
    ― Oliver James
    tags: individuality, inspirational, life
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  • #21
    “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
    tags: football, inspirational, paradox, perseverance
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: own, things
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: deep-thought, perfection
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  • #28
    Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy
    “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: materialism
    699 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
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    Woody Allen
    “You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, life, writing
    190 likes



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