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    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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    Studs Terkel
    “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
    ― Studs Terkel
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.”
    ― other
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Sherman Alexie
    “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World
    tags: love, worthiness
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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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    Ava Gardner
    “The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
    ― Ava Gardner
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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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    Roman Payne
    “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

    (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: disappointment, disillusionment, gilding, idols, touch
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    ― Mary Gaitskill
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    Rebecca Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    ― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
    tags: inspirational
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
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    Rose Wilder Lane
    “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
    ― Rose Wilder Lane
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
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  • #26
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    ― Ira Glass
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  • #27
    “You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.”
    ― Ira Glass
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Ralph Ellison
    “And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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  • #30
    Ralph Ellison
    “Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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