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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, time
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    Patrick Süskind
    “...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: experience, hard-work, humility, talent
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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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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
    tags: hard-work, mastery, wonderful, work
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    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: conscience, encouragement, inspiration, life, morality, selfishness, wisdom
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    Steve Martin
    “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
    ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
    tags: comedy, encouragement, humor, steve-martin
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: encouragement, leadership
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
    but they, while their companions slept,
    were toiling upward in the night.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: encouragement, inspirational, work
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    John C. Maxwell
    “Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
    ― John C. Maxwell
    tags: encouragement, humor, life
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    Anne Lamott
    “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Neil Gaiman
    “If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.


    If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.

    Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: art, encouragement, inspiration, neil-gaiman, reviews
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    George Eliot
    “The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: encouragement, faith, friendship
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    Lev Grossman
    “The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    “Why sadness was created?
    So we could rest from laughing.”
    ― Nelson M. Lubao
    tags: happiness, humor-inspirational, inspiration, life
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  • #17
    “When you have failed at being nice, you’ve actually succeeded in being mean. Success is everywhere if you know where to look for it.”
    ― Katina Ferguson
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    “Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything.”
    ― New York Magazine
    tags: buddha, hot-dog, humor-inspirational
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    Gerard de Marigny
    “I told a doctor once, "Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!”
    ― Gerard de Marigny, The Watchman of Ephraim
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    Stephen Colbert
    “They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: humor, humor-inspirational, inspirational
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    Shel Silverstein
    “ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE
    But please walk softly as you do.
    Frogs dwell here and crickets too.
    Ain't no ceiling, only blue
    Jays dwell here and sunbeams too.
    Floors are flowers - take a few.
    Ferns grow here and daisies too.
    Whoosh, swoosh - too-whit, too-woo,
    Bats dwell here and hoot owls too.
    Ha-ha-ha,hee-hee,hoo-hoooo,
    Gnomes dwell here and goblins too.
    And my child, I thought you knew
    I dwell here...and so do you.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
    tags: deserted, poem
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: accept, acceptance, acknowledge, awareness, city, confront, consciousness, deserted, drive, escape, experience, harmony, humanity, infinite, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, oneness, philosophical, philosophy, psychology, quote, sea, shoreless, swim, truth, union, unity, world, you, yourself
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    Elmore Leonard
    “My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”
    ― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
    tags: creative-process, focus, writing
    253 likes

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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
    tags: bleed, deadliest, heal, hurt, internally, outside, pain, people, worst, wounds
    471 likes

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  • #25
    “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
    ― Franklin Leonard
    tags: equality
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    Frida Kahlo
    “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
    ― Rebecca Martin
    tags: frida-kahlo-attributed
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    Frida Kahlo
    “No moon, sun, diamond, hands —
    fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
    pine green, pink glass, eye,
    mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
    ― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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    Frida Kahlo
    “Feet, what do I need them for
    If I have wings to fly.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    tags: inspirational
    693 likes

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    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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