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“Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.”
― Stevie Nicks

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“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”
― Stevie Nicks

tags: contradictory, equality, feminism, gender-norm, inspirational, social-norm

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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#4

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#5

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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#6

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: on-the-road, sal-paradise

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#7

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

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#8

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: life, parting

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#9

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#10

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
― Jack Kerouac

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#11

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#12

“Practice makes the master.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: practice

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#13

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: doing, inspirational, learning, learning-by-doing, life, practice

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#14

“You are what you practice most.”
― Richard Carlson

tags: practice

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#15

“beautiful insane
in the rain”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

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#16

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#17

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#18

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa

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#19

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: life, living

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#20

“If you own a rug you own too much.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: beat

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#21

“Love is only one fine star away.”
― Stevie Nicks

tags: astronomy, hope, love, stars

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#22

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

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“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

tags: hope, injustice, politcal

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#24

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#25

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement

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#26

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#27

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#28

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth

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#29

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#31

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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