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#1

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#2

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

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#3

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

tags: life

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#4

“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: eavesdropping, gossip

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#5

“Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make -- bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake -- if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. Making assumptions simply means believing things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, and you can see at once how this can lead to terrible trouble. For instance, one morning you might wake up and make the assumption that your bed was in the same place that it always was, even though you would have no real evidence that this was so. But when you got out of your bed, you might discover that it had floated out to sea, and now you would be in terrible trouble all because of the incorrect assumption that you'd made. You can see that it is better not to make too many assumptions, particularly in the morning.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

tags: assumptions, preconceptions

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#6

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: library

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#7

“I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

tags: doomed-love

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#8

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

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#9

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fear

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#10

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#11

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching

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#12

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

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#13

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring

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#14

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved, true-love, what-matters

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#15

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: curiosity, depression, education, learning, teaching

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#16

“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: beauty, experience, flight, flying, freedom, growing, growth, heal, healing, hurt, hurting, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, living, living-life, pain, painful, wind, wings, wisdom, wisdom-in-life, wisdom-quotes

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#17

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#18

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

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#19

“I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: change, character-defining, character-quote, growth, growth-life, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspiring, learning, life-and-living, random, stubbornness, unpredictable

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#20

“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

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#21

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins

tags: education, learning, mentoring, teaching

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#22

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

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#23

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: learning

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#24

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

tags: devotion, inspirational, learning, reading, writing

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#25

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing, education, experience, learning, performance, practice

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#26

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
― Aristotle

tags: learning

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#27

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
― Leo Buscaglia

tags: change, learning

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#28

“But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.

Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”
― John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom

tags: learning, mistakes, wisdom

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#29

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

tags: knowledge, learning, twenty

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#30

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: doing, inspirational, learning, learning-by-doing, life, practice

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