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    Carlos Castaneda
    “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
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    Cornel West
    “We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
    ― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
    tags: commitment, loyalty, relationships
    1021 likes

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    “Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”
    ― Doug Fetherling
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: wonder
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Nalo Hopkinson
    “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
    ― Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
    tags: death, death-and-humor, death-and-love, dying, loss
    1012 likes

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  • #9
    Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    “Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
    ― Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational
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  • #10
    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    ― Anzia Yezierska
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
    4054 likes

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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    ― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
    tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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  • #17
    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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  • #18
    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    ― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
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  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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  • #20
    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    tags: books
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    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    ― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
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    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
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  • #24
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114369 likes



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