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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes
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    Sara Teasdale
    “Stephen kissed me in the spring,
    Robin in the fall,
    But Colin only looked at me
    And never kissed at all.

    Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,
    Robin’s lost in play,
    But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
    Haunts me night and day.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
    tags: kiss, love, memories, poetry
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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  • #5
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
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  • #6
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
    ― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Alberto Moravia
    “You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.”
    ― Alberto Moravia, Boredom
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    Roland Barthes
    “Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
    ― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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  • #16
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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  • #17
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
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    Confucius
    “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
    ― Confucius
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “They're in love. Fuck the war.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: abnormal, aspiration, indoctrination, misfit, normal, opinions, rebel, society
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: clothes, clothing, conspicuous-consumption, expensive, image, impression, poor, prosperity, show-off
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: admiration, facebook, illusion, social-networks
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: entertainment, fear, fiction, phobia, predictability, reality, unpredictability, unpredictability-of-life
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: artifact, clothes, divided-and-conquered, genitals, natural, nature, nudity, penis, private-parts, social-constructs, vagina
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered
    tags: assumption, dating, gays, homophobia, homosexual, lesbians, marriage, relationships, religion, reproduction, sex
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, boyfriend, boyfriends, convince, convinced, convincing, date, dating, deep, deserve, deserving, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, partner, partners, persuade, persuaded, persuading, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, true, wife, wives
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