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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
    ― e.e. cummings
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #9
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    ― Samuel Butler
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: brains, intelligence
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    Robert Bly
    “Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
    I want to tie the two arms together,
    And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
    ― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems
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  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: heart, mind
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    John Donne
    “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
    ― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
    tags: jail, palace, world
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  • #23
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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  • #24
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Jules Renard
    “The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
    ― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard
    tags: free
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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  • #29
    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
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  • #30
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    tags: humor, wit
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  • #31
    Lawrence Durrell
    “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
    ― Lawrence Durrell, Justine
    tags: silence
    1219 likes



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