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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

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#3

“A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.”
― Vimala McClure, The Tao of Motherhood

tags: gentleness, love, mothering, respect, security

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#4

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple

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#5

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#6

“For many years, February was a difficult month for me after the death of my parents. My father died in February, just a week before my mother's birthday. For years their loss cast a pall over the month. I missed them terribly. But time has changed things. I see my father often in the face of my son and I run into my mother daily each time I pass the hall mirror.”
― Mary Morrell, Things My Father Taught Me About Love

tags: death, father, february, humor, mirror, mother, time

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#7

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#8

“She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

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#9

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

tags: funny, humanity, humor

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#10

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women

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#11

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin

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#12

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity

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#13

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

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#14

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
― George Carlin

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism

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#15

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#16

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#17

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#18

“Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: anne-shirley, l-m-montgomery, matthew

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#19

“TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: april, beauty, life, poem, poems, poetry, seasons, spring

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#20

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."

(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)”
― Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens

tags: fairy-tales, utilitarianism

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#21

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth

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#22

“Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.”
― Chuck Wendig, 500 Ways to Be a Better Writer

tags: writing-advice

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#23

“Hers were gloriously improbable tales, stuffed with happy coincidences, eternal devotion, and the unwavering recognition of inner beauty.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

tags: beauty, coincidences, devotion, helen-oyeyemi, mr-fox, romance-novels, romantic, stories, writing

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#24

“Embodied devotion and dedication is about how we give ourselves to the world; it’s about our relationships with other embodied beings.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

tags: dedication, devotion, ecology, relationships

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#25

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

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#26

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

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#27

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
― Adrienne Rich

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#28

“Maybe this book just serves as a guide to what not to do. For instance: Don’t smoke crack. I’ll describe it for you now just so curiosity doesn’t get the better of you: It’s like doing a whip-it and eating wasabi at the same time. Still, if you really just love smoking crack and that’s your thing, I won’t stop you.”
― Jon Moxley, MOX

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#29

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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#30

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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