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    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
    5548 likes

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    Bernard Malamud
    “There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
    ― Bernard Malamud
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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
    9576 likes

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    Machado de Assis
    “He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
    ― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia
    tags: balance, evil, good
    768 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    16158 likes

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  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
    18377 likes

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  • #10
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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  • #11
    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
    2169 likes

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    Willa Cather
    “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
    tags: desire
    1490 likes

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  • #13
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
    2254 likes

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  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18124 likes

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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
    tags: inspirational, my-psalm
    1280 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
    4188 likes

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  • #17
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    ― Betty Friedan
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  • #18
    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “You don't have anything
    if you don't have the stories.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
    1581 likes

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  • #19
    Charles Eames
    “Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
    ― Charles Eames
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    J.D. Mason
    “Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.”
    ― J.D. Mason, Drop Dead, Gorgeous: A Novel
    tags: african-american-fiction, drop-dead-gorgeous, guilt, j-d-mason, urban-fiction
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
    tags: friends, judgement
    10552 likes

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    Omar Khayyám
    “Today is the time of my youth
    I drink wine because it is my solace;
    Do not blame me, although it is bitter it is pleasant,
    It is bitter because it is my life.”
    ― Omar Khayyam
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
    2854 likes

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    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
    tags: words
    3118 likes

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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
    3229 likes

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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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  • #28
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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  • #30
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7576 likes



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