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#1

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tags: authorship, on-writing

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#2

“I write because I cannot NOT write.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: writing

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#3

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

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#4

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: happy, honesty, life

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#5

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: determined, inspirational, misattributed-bruce-lee, spiritual

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#6

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

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#7

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#8

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls

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#9

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: hope, inspirational

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#10

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas

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#11

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

tags: compensation, disappointment, failure, hope, inspirational

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#12

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
― Martin Luther

tags: hope, inspirational

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#13

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

tags: hope

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#14

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
― Sophocles

tags: pain

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#15

“When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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#16

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness

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#17

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

tags: adversity, appreciation, hardship, inspirational, life, prosperity, seasons, spring, winter

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#18

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
― Pythagoras

tags: darkness, death, life, light

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#19

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: heart, love, marriage, passion

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#20

“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, fate, jane-eyre

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#21

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

tags: inspiration, resourcefulness

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#22

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars

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#23

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anais Nin

tags: civilization, inspiration, revolution

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#24

“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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