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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #8
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: grief, inspirational
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  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: education, sex
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #14
    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    ― Alice McDermott
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: abilities, capability, confidence, optimism, possibility, skills, strength
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...”
    ― Osamu Tezuka
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.”
    ― Osamu Tezuka
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.”
    ― Osamu Tezuka
    tags: blackjack, coincidence, probability
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”
    ― Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “I'm still living in my post-war.”
    ― Osamu Tezuka
    tags: manga, wwii
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.”
    ― Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 7: Prince Ajatasattu
    tags: fearlessness
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: age, perspective
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: evil, good
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “Life is a winking light in the darkness.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: life
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: friendship, love, romance
    725 likes

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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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