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#1

“Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness”
― Kanye West

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“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: generosity, goals, practicality

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“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: aspirations, dreams, goals, ideals

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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#6

“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: change-the-world, purpose

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“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#8

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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#9

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: frustration, humor, laughter

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“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: disillusionment, growing-up, humor

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#12

“I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
― Billy Joel

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#13

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#14

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#15

“I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.”
― Sri Chinmoy

tags: agape, happiness, self-control

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“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
― J. Richard Lessor

tags: happiness, inspirational

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#17

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, happiness

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#18

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#19

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
― Floriano Martins

tags: enemy, identity, introspection, self, self-discovery

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#20

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#21

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: conformity, freedom, growth, individuality

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#22

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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#23

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: live-in-the-moment, paradox

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#24

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#25

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: inspirational

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#26

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#27

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#28

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#29

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

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#30

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: 2008, advice

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