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    Alain de Botton
    “You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: beauty, hardships, life, ordinary-days
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    David Hume
    “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
    ― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
    tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning
    644 likes

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    Gift Gugu Mona
    “Never miss an opportunity to see the bigger picture.”
    ― Gift Gugu Mona
    tags: bigger-picture, life-lessons, opportunity, visionary
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    Beryl Markham
    “There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
    ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
    tags: decay, fun, life, nature, quiet, stillness
    57 likes

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    E'yen A. Gardner
    “Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.”
    ― E'yen A. Gardner
    tags: life, peace, stillness
    52 likes

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    Jessica Shook
    “When a hug is this big, you feel it for days.”
    ― Jessica Shook, Shrapnel
    tags: family, family-life, hugs
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    Lao Tzu
    “At the center of your being
    you have the answer;
    you know who you are
    and you know what you want.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery
    1305 likes

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    Louise Erdrich
    “Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
    tags: death-and-dying, ravens
    80 likes

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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
    2216 likes

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    Anthony Doerr
    “I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

    It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    tags: colors, ocean, sea
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    Cornelia Funke
    “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
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    Tove Jansson
    “It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.”
    ― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll
    tags: random, top-hat
    42 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: rain
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne
    tags: fall, seasons, smell
    412 likes

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    Jeffrey Fry
    “An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.”
    ― Jeffrey Fry
    tags: heart, lead, open-mind, same
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acceptance, answers, believe, church, faith, findig-something-to-believe, finding-yourself, fitting, fitting-in, god, god-s-plan, happiness, joy, life, pastors, peace, philosophy, prayer, religion, searching, searching-for-truth, seeking, truth, unhappiness
    182 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: searching, striving, uncertainty
    145 likes

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    Karl Pilkington
    “There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about "oh the baby's lovely." They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.”
    ― Karl Pilkington
    tags: babies, eavesdropping, frogs, humour
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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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    John Keats
    “Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
    ― John Keats
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    Shana Chartier
    “If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.”
    ― Shana Chartier
    tags: autumn, autumn-leaves, autumn-quotes, death, death-and-dying, fall, life, life-quotes, nature, nature-s-beauty
    31 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
    539 likes

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  • #24
    “I think in threes.”
    ― Tobin Wilson
    tags: three
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    Iimani David
    “Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.”
    ― Iimani David
    tags: clouds, iimani-david, life, wisdom
    32 likes

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    Roman Payne
    “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
    ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
    tags: adventure, exploration, good-luck, luck, payne, roman, roman-payne, travel, wandering
    568 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: equality, life, logic, opinions
    820 likes

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    Gail Tsukiyama
    “Everything seems simpler from a distance.”
    ― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
    tags: distance, life, people, simple, simplicity
    94 likes

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    Ian Frazier
    “Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”
    ― Ian Frazier
    tags: distance, people
    112 likes

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    Ruskin Bond
    “The deodar enjoys the company of its own kind: Where one deodar grows, there will be others. A walk in a deodar forest is awe-inspiring -- surrounded on all sides by these great sentinels of the mountains, you feel as though the trees themselves are on the march.”
    ― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie
    tags: deodar, forest, mountains
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    Lao Tzu
    “Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: stillness
    163 likes



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