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    Cassandra Clare
    “So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
    "Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
    tags: city-of-fallen-angels, jace-lightwood, simon-lewis
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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    ― Novalis
    tags: healing, poetry
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspirational
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
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    René Descartes
    “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: doubt, truth
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    Rosamunde Pilcher
    “It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”
    ― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
    tags: love, lovers
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    ― Michael Levine
    tags: wisdom
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    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince
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    Denis Waitley
    “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
    ― Denis Waitley
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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: writing
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale
    tags: inspirational
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, poetry
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39280 likes



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