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    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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  • #6
    “Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place”
    ― Keiichi Sigsawa, Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Some walks you have to take alone.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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    Cassandra Clare
    “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: coffee, humor, optimism, solace
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
    3095 likes

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  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Gosho Aoyama
    “Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.”
    ― Gosho Aoyama
    tags: detective, inspirational, mystery
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    Richard Adams
    “You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: danger-of-expectation
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
    "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
    "Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor, less, more, nonsense, tea
    856 likes

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  • #15
    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
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  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: brevity, writing
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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  • #19
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92175 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
    ― Carter Crocker
    tags: confidence
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Patrick Carman
    “She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.”
    ― Patrick Carman, The Dark Planet
    tags: darkness, hope, mothers
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    Confucius
    “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
    ― Confucius
    1082 likes



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