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#1

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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#2

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#3

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

tags: writing-life

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#4

“Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.”
― Joseph Eastwood

tags: dream, inspiration, perfect, perfection, writing

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#5

“Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine.”
― Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

tags: cocaine, sugar

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#6

“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”
― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

tags: coffee

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#7

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor

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#8

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#9

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

tags: past

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#10

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#11

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#12

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

tags: coast, island-living, sea

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#13

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#14

“Wherever there are birds, there is hope.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: birds

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#15

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

tags: inspirational

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#16

“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.”
― Steve Brown, Approaching God: Accepting the Invitation to Stand in the Presence of God

tags: freedom, joy, laughter, religion, worship

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#17

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
― Joseph Heller

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#18

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

tags: women

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#19

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

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#20

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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#21

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance

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#22

“আত্মোপকারীকে বনবাসে বিসর্জন করা যাহাদিগের প্রকৃতি, তাহারা চিরকাল আত্মোপকারীকে বনবাসে দিবে – কিন্তু যতবার বনবাসিত করুক না কেন, পরের কাষ্ঠাহরণ করা যাহার স্বভাব, সে পুনর্বার পরের কাষ্ঠাহরণে যাইবে। তুমি অধম – তাই বলিয়া আমি উত্তম হইবো না কেন?”
― Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

tags: inspriational

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#23

“খেলিছ এ বিশ্ব লয়ে
বিরাট শিশু আনমনে।
প্রলয় সৃষ্টি তব পুতুল খেলা
নিরজনে প্রভু নিরজনে।।”
― Kazi Nazrul Islam

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#24

“মোর ফুলবনে ছিল যত ফুল
ভরি ডালি দিনূ ঢালি দেবতা মোর ।
হায় নিলে না সে ফুল ছি ছি বেভুল
নিলে তুলি খোপা খুলি কুসুম ডোর

স্বপনে কি যে কয়েছি তাই গিয়াছে চলে
জাগিয়া কেদে ডাকি দেবতায়
প্রিয়তম প্রিয়তম প্রিয়তম ।।”
― Kazi Nazrul Islam

tags: romance

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#25

“cokrobak”
― Kazi Nazrul Islam, বাঁধন-হারা

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#26

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

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#27

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

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#28

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

tags: insanity, mental-illness, sickness, thoughts

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#29

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#30

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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