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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: joy
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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: book
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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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    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: kindness
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    “Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” - Celaena Sardothien - Throne of Glass”
    ― Sarah J Mass
    tags: dangerous, libraries, library, powerful, weapons
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  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #11
    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    ― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems
    tags: water
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own - if given proper reading material.’” - Celaena Sardothien - Throne of Glass”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: alone, books, independent, reading, survival
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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  • #15
    “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
    ― EE cummings
    tags: mud, puddle, world
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: manners
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  • #17
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
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    E.E. Cummings
    “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: inspirational
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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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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
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  • #21
    “...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.”
    ― EE cummings
    tags: alive, destiny, fate, you
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #24
    “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
    ― Henry Stanley Haskins
    tags: awareness, life
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  • #25
    Kahlil Gibran
    “An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: forgiveness, retribution, revenge
    312 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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  • #27
    “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, could not be broken.” -Feyre Archeron - A Court of Mist and Fury”
    ― Sarah J Mass
    tags: resilience, strength, survivor
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  • #28
    E.E. Cummings
    “The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.”
    ― Edward E. Cummings
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #30
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: generosity, pride
    1130 likes



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