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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Joseph Campbell
    “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    George Lucas
    “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”
    ― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope
    tags: princess-leia, star-wars
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: life
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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    Orson Scott Card
    “I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: people, truth, wisdom
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    Joseph Campbell
    “All religions are true but none are literal.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: morality, religion
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity
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    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
    tags: attributed, metaphor, mysticism, psychosis, schizophrenia
    355 likes

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    Scott Westerfeld
    “What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
    tags: dissatisfaction, pretties
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  • #16
    “This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves”
    ― Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
    tags: scott-westerfield, uglies
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  • #17
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    ― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land
    tags: misattributed-cassandra-clare, misattributed-jace
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    Stephen King
    “We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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  • #19
    Anthony Doerr
    “You fly all the way to the end of the stars, and all you want ·[to do is go home…]·”
    ― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
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defiance
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