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    Margaret Thatcher
    “Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches
    tags: democracy, inspirational, leadership, reality
    365 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
    1185 likes

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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: dreams, inspirational, the-sky-s-the-limit, tom-hiddleston
    531 likes

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  • #4
    Austin J. Bailey
    “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”‌—‌Barbara Kingsolver Copyright”
    ― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: humor, inspirational, politics, slander, wisdom
    253 likes

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  • #6
    “You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!”
    ― Scroobius Pip
    tags: challenge, free-cheese, mousetrap
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  • #7
    J.M. Barrie
    “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
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    Mitch Albom
    “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
    ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: alone, back-up, death, death-of-a-loved-one, dying, fight, loss, parents
    672 likes

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  • #9
    Richard Puz
    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
    From an Irish headstone”
    ― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
    tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, eternal-love, healing, healing-the-past, heartache-love, heartbreak, love-hurts, memorial, memories, memory
    782 likes

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  • #10
    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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    Maya Angelou
    “Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: absence, break, peace, rest, vacation, work
    544 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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  • #13
    David Nicholls
    “You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: life, love
    772 likes

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    David Nicholls
    “Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: heartache
    763 likes

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    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
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    David Nicholls
    “Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: carpe-diem, incrementalism
    575 likes

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    David Nicholls
    “If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: secrecy
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    David Nicholls
    “Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: love, one-day, one-day-david-nicholls, sorry
    496 likes

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  • #19
    David Nicholls
    “She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
    tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women
    1370 likes

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  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “the tired sunsets and the tired
    people -
    it takes a lifetime to die and
    no time at
    all.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: die, lifetime, people, sunsets, time, tired
    445 likes

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    Jo Walton
    “There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
    ― Jo Walton
    tags: appreciation, nature, sunrise, sunset
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    Jeannette Walls
    “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: appreciation, earth, god, lord, religion, sunrise, world
    146 likes

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  • #24
    Zadie Smith
    “People aren’t poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they’re poor.”
    ― Zadie Smith, Swing Time
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  • #25
    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
    2585 likes

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  • #26
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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  • #27
    “Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don’t hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You’ll need that bridge when returning.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
    tags: be-kind, bridge, coaches, connections, cross, destroy, food-for-thought, friends, hate, hatred, israelmore-ayivor, mentors, networking, people, person, return, returning, teachers
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  • #28
    Karen Quan
    “You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.”
    ― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading
    tags: aches, bottled-up, clueless, emotional, emotional-pain, heartache, inside, love, sincerity
    112 likes

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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177071 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
    6705 likes



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