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    Chad Harbach
    “You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”
    ― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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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
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    David Foster Wallace
    “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    tags: words
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    Noah Hawley
    “Life is made of these moments -- of one's physical being moving through time and space -- and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life.”
    ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
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    David Mitchell
    “This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
    ― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
    tags: david-mitchell, inspirational, love, philosophical, philosophy, the-bone-clocks
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    Jim Rohn
    “Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: hard-work, motivational
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    J.M. Barrie
    “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success
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    Louise L. Hay
    “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
    ― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
    tags: approval, positive-thoughts, self-compassion, self-criticism, self-esteem, you-can-heal-your-life
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    Nathaniel Branden
    “In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.”
    ― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
    tags: independence, inner-critic, self-acceptance, self-criticism, self-esteem
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  • #10
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I sit beside the fire and think
    Of all that I have seen
    Of meadow flowers and butterflies
    In summers that have been

    Of yellow leaves and gossamer
    In autumns that there were
    With morning mist and silver sun
    And wind upon my hair

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of how the world will be
    When winter comes without a spring
    That I shall ever see

    For still there are so many things
    That I have never seen
    In every wood in every spring
    There is a different green

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of people long ago
    And people that will see a world
    That I shall never know

    But all the while I sit and think
    Of times there were before
    I listen for returning feet
    And voices at the door”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: life, time
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: faith, inspiration, life, sorrow, wisdom, worry
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: change, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Francis Bacon
    “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: humor, imagination
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
    ― Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies
    tags: curiosity, religion, spirituality, wonder
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Noah Hawley
    “It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.”
    ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
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    Noah Hawley
    “It’s hard to be sad when you’re being useful. And he liked that idea. That service to others brought happiness. It was self-involvement that led to depression, to spiraling questions about the meaning of things.”
    ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
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    Dr. Seuss
    “We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: love, weirdness
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  • #19
    “Be the person you needed when you were younger.”
    ― Ayesha Siddiqi
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  • #20
    “The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: bravery, heroes
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to get rid of
    the life we’ve planned, so as to have
    the life that is waiting for us.

    The old skin has to be shed
    before the new one can come.

    If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
    When we hang onto any form,
    we are in danger of putrefaction.

    Hell is life drying up.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
    tags: acceptance, change, grace, life, moving-forward, plans, vitality
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: strength
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  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: denial, self-awareness
    1905 likes



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