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    “AUNT SHADIE:
    I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.

    ROSE:
    I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.

    AUNT SHADIE:
    White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.”
    ― Marie Clements, The Unnatural and Accidental Women
    tags: acceptance, blindness, inspirational, skin-color, white
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    “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
    ― Chuck Close, Chuck Close
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    “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
    ― Oroma Elewa
    tags: inspirational, muse, self-knowledge
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    Todd Stocker
    “A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.”
    ― Todd Stocker
    tags: preacher, preaching, public-speaking, speaker, speaking
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    Francis of Assisi
    “Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.”
    ― St. Francis of Assisi
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    Paige Lewis
    “I feel as if I’m on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit, and I can’t find the hole. I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
    ― Paige Lewis, Space Struck
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Pablo Picasso
    “If I don't have red, I use blue.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Pablo Picasso
    “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: inspirational
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    Haruki Murakami
    “In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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    Albert Camus
    “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Julio Cortázar
    “All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: creativity, distraction, writing
    203 likes

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  • #16
    “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
    ― Hafiz
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    Kiran Nagarkar
    “Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.”
    ― Kiran Nagarkar
    tags: happiness, pain, philosophy
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    “Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”
    ― Kim Namjoong
    tags: bts, end-violence, inspirational, love-myself, motivational, self-love, unicef, united-nations
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    Simone Weil
    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
    ― Simone Weil
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”
    ― Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
    tags: beauty, future, guru
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    Ryōkan
    “Too lazy to be ambitious,
    I let the world take care of itself.
    Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
    a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
    Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
    Listening to the night rain on my roof,
    I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
    ― Ryokan
    tags: buddhism, buddhist, hermit, japan, japanese, monk, philosophers, philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, ryokan, seers, zen, zen-monk
    205 likes

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  • #23
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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    Zadie Smith
    “Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.”
    ― Zadie Smith, Intimations
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    Zadie Smith
    “I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
    ― Zadie Smith, Intimations
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    Zadie Smith
    “Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world - if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.”
    ― Zadie Smith, Intimations
    tags: class, deep, deep-thoughts, essay, philosophy, suffering
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: haruki-murakami, rain, reality
    169 likes

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  • #29
    Libba Bray
    “There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: crying, proverb, revelation, suffering, wisdom
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    Susan Sontag
    “Sanity is a cozy lie.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: sanity
    316 likes



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