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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
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    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
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
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  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
    tags: ambition
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #11
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #12
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
    ― Nietzsche
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  • #18
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: fate, inspirational, life, love
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  • #19
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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  • #21
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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  • #22
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love, marriage
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  • #25
    Johnny Cash
    “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Johnny Cash
    “I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
    ― Johnny Cash
    tags: black, hypocrisy, individuality, religion, status-quo
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  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: dreams, truth
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “To be alive at all is to have scars.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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