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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, inspiration, margaret-langstaff, risk, writing
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    William Nicholson
    “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: mistakes
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    Sarah Ockler
    “Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.”
    ― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
    tags: grief, loss, love
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: enemies, explanations, friends
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    C. Northcote Parkinson
    “Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
    ― C. Northcote Parkinson
    tags: denial, life
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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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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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
    tags: missed-chances, opportunities
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics
    tags: dead, eternity, living, memory
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Our life is made by the death of others.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: da-vinci, death, life
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Stuart Chase
    “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
    ― Stuart Chase
    tags: belief, god, life, religion
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
    ― Haniel Long
    tags: family, love, loyalty, stability
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: self-esteem, self-image
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    Conan O'Brien
    “A study in the Washington Post says that women have
    better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
    authors of that study: 'Duh.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
    3050 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148479 likes



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