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#1

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#2

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#3

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#4

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#5

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

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#6

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

tags: bitch

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#7

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
― Stephen King

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#8

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#9

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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#10

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: love

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#11

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

tags: philosophy

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#12

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

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#13

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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#14

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dreams

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#15

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

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#16

“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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#17

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#18

“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#19

“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#20

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education

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#21

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers

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#22

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

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#23

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty

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#24

“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: change, growth, inspirational, learning-from-mistakes, past

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#25

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty, power

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#26

“Don't cry over the same thing twice. Get it all out the first time, even if it's loud and messy. Then it's over.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

tags: crying, sadness

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#27

“In a world in which people would trample you to get a seat on a bus, it was miraculous to watch them spontaneously give way to the sick and suffering.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

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#28

“For I am my mother’s son.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

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#29

“I see things differently, I think of them differently. I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.”
― Oscar Wilde, Works of Oscar Wilde

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