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    Atticus .
    “I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
    a wild pixie,
    that if let go,
    would run and dance in grassy fields
    until the end of the world.

    And then that girl grows up,
    that pixie hides,
    but it's always there,
    peeking out behind old eyes
    and reading glasses,
    laughing, waiting,
    to one day dance again.”
    ― Atticus
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    Charles Frazier
    “Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Tennessee Williams
    “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
    tags: cages, prayer, wild-at-heart
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    Peter De Vries
    “Write drunk; edit sober.”
    ― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben
    tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway
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    Max DePree
    “We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.”
    ― Max DePree
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: nature, outdoors
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    Frida Kahlo
    “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Roman Payne
    “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
    tags: bipolar, illness, manic-depresison
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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    John Muir
    “The sun shines not on us but in us.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: inner-strength
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    John Muir
    “As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”
    ― John Muir
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    Alan W. Watts
    “It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom
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    Susan Cain
    “What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Susan Cain
    “Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Susan Cain
    “The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Jack London
    “But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    Robert Frost
    “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: afflictions, on-writing, poetry
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods
    tags: forest, maine, maine-woods, mountains, nature, thoreau, woods
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