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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #5
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #6
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    Jack Kornfield
    “In the end
    these things matter most:
    How well did you love?
    How fully did you live?
    How deeply did you let go?”
    ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
    tags: eastern-philosophy, inspirational
    2826 likes

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  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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  • #10
    William Nicholson
    “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: inspirational-prayer
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  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #12
    “All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.”
    ― A.J. RUSSELL
    tags: god, life, truth, wisdom
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    Kathleen Norris
    “If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”
    ― Kathleen Norris
    tags: wisdom-grace
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    Walter Wangerin Jr.
    “Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.”
    ― Walter Wangerin, Jr
    tags: wisdom
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22591 likes

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  • #17
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #18
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Try a little harder to be a little better.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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  • #19
    Barbara Johnson
    “To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
    You have to be in their lives today.”
    ― Barbara Johnson
    tags: inspirational, parenting
    429 likes

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  • #20
    Darren E. Laws
    “If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all...”
    ― Darren E. Laws
    tags: inspirational
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    Franklin P. Adams
    “Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.”
    ― Franklin P. Adams
    tags: inspirational
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    Jodi Picoult
    “See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: inspirational, mourning
    647 likes

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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: love
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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #30
    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
    3546 likes



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