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    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: beatitudes, paraphrased
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
    2138 likes

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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
    1315 likes

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  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: choice, happiness
    1248 likes

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  • #5
    Stephen King
    “Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
    ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
    tags: friends, friendship, privacy
    491 likes

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  • #6
    Edith Wharton
    “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense
    662 likes

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  • #7
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
    3438 likes

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  • #8
    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    ― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]
    tags: hope, sun
    1915 likes

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  • #9
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
    24269 likes

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  • #10
    Anaïs Nin
    “Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
    tags: ecstasy, love, passion, sexuality
    585 likes

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  • #11
    Anaïs Nin
    “He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
    tags: intrigue, passion, romance
    547 likes

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  • #12
    Federico Fellini
    “If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”
    ― Federico Fellini
    tags: contemplation, silence, understanding
    274 likes

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  • #13
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
    tags: ascetic, astral-projection, contemplation, creativity, dreams, escape, journey, meditation, mind, thoughts, travel
    163 likes

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  • #14
    Matsuo Bashō
    “Many solemn nights
    Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
    Sleeping our noons away”
    ― Teitoku, Japanese Haiku
    tags: contemplation, haiku, moon
    90 likes

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  • #15
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: contemplation, materialism
    56 likes

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  • #16
    Thomas Merton
    “Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation
    tags: trappist-monk
    62 likes

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  • #17
    Robert Henri
    “There is no art without contemplation.”
    ― Robert Henri
    tags: art
    40 likes

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  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
    12558 likes

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  • #19
    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
    7675 likes

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  • #20
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
    7229 likes

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  • #21
    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
    6287 likes

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  • #22
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    ― Olin Miller
    tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry
    5454 likes

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  • #23
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    8700 likes

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  • #24
    Steven Wright
    “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: amnesia, humor, memory
    4692 likes

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  • #25
    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
    5115 likes

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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
    5510 likes

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  • #27
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    20089 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148383 likes

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  • #29
    Janet Evanovich
    “Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.”
    ― Janet Evanovich
    tags: action, humor, romance
    246 likes

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  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
    ― Mary W. Shelley
    tags: consolation, mood, solitude
    454 likes



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