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    Mother Teresa
    “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
    ― Mother Theresa
    tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
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    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
    2306 likes

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  • #5
    Dan Brown
    “Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
    ― Dan Brown, Deception Point
    tags: moving-on, past
    1039 likes

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  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “What's past is prologue.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: past
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    Oscar Wilde
    “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: past, rich, wilde
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    Bill Cosby
    “The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”
    ― Bill Cosby
    tags: dream, future, ghost, past, present, time
    485 likes

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    Crystal Woods
    “I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. ”
    ― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
    tags: be-yourself, beauty, best, feelings, head, heart, heartache, heartbreak, infatuation, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, lust, mistakes, realist, relationships, sentimental, sex, truth, word-junkies
    198 likes

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    Matthieu Ricard
    “The search for happiness is not about looking at life through rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself to the pain and imperfections of the world. Nor is happiness a state of exaltation to be perpetuated at all costs; it is the purging of mental toxins, such as hatred and obsession, that literally poison the mind. It is also about learning how to put things in perspective and reduce the gap between appearances and reality. To that end we must acquire a better knowledge of how the mind works and a more accurate insight into the nature of things, for in its deepest sense, suffering is intimately linked to a misapprehension of the nature of reality.”
    ― Matthieu Ricard, The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
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    Marcel Proust
    “one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)”
    ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
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    William Gaddis
    “Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.”
    ― William Gaddis, The Recognitions
    tags: proust, reading
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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
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  • #14
    Marcel Proust
    “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
    ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
    tags: love
    917 likes

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  • #15
    Marcel Proust
    “My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: growth, life, living, outlook
    763 likes

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  • #16
    Marcel Proust
    “It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: labels, manners
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: ambition, awake, genius, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: accept-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, keep-moving-forward, letting-go, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love-yourself, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
    7355 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost
    1898 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
    1505 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
    1392 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: friendship
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    335 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    tags: curiosity
    301 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
    4591 likes



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