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    Brian Andreas
    “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Edwin Markham
    “There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”
    ― Edwin Markham
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    D.T. Suzuki
    “Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
    ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
    tags: emptiness, possibilities, space
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Håkan Nesser
    “It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.”
    ― Hakan Nesser, Münsters Fall
    tags: sad-but-true
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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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    Neil Gaiman
    “I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
    ― Neil Gaiman , The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
    tags: hell
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    Rollo May
    “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: conformity
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Pat Conroy
    “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
    ― Pat Conroy
    tags: journey, travel
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    Aldo Leopold
    “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
    tags: farming, living, nature
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”
    ― Aldo Leopold
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    Aldo Leopold
    “The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
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    William Martin
    “Do not ask your children
    to strive for extraordinary lives.
    Such striving may seem admirable,
    but it is the way of foolishness.
    Help them instead to find the wonder
    and the marvel of an ordinary life.
    Show them the joy of tasting
    tomatoes, apples and pears.
    Show them how to cry
    when pets and people die.
    Show them the infinite pleasure
    in the touch of a hand.
    And make the ordinary come alive for them.
    The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
    ― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
    tags: admirable, advice, children, extraordinary, life, lives, ordinary
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    William Martin
    “Don’t mistake your desire to talk for their readiness to listen. Far more important”
    ― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
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    Beryl Markham
    “The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.”
    ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
    tags: discovery, needle-in-haystack, organization, search
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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
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    Tami Hoag
    “Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Down the Darkest Road
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    Sharon Olds
    “There is something in me maybe someday
    to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
    and folded, like a note in school.”
    ― Sharon Olds
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Emily St. John Mandel
    “Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
    ― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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    William Shakespeare
    “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: good-deeds, goodness, humanity, inspirational, life, light, world
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    Louise Penny
    “Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look good on the outside but feel wretched on the interior. And some of the least attractive homes, from the outside, were kindly and warm inside.

    He also knew the first few rooms were for public consumption. It was only in going deeper that he'd find the reality. And finally, inevitably, there was the last room, the one we keep locked, and bolted and barred, even from ourselves. Especially from ourselves.”
    ― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month
    tags: homes, rooms
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    Louise Penny
    “But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”
    ― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
    tags: librarians
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    Louise Penny
    “Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make”
    ― Louise Penny, Still Life
    tags: choice, life, observation
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