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“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#2

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#3

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

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#4

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#5

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

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#6

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

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#7

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#8

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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#9

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#10

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#11

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#12

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#13

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#14

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#15

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#16

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#17

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: friends, humor

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#18

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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#19

“Oh I can't stop drinking the coffee, I stop drinking the coffee and I stop doing the standing and the walking and the words-putting-into-sentence-doing.”
― Lorelai

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#20

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#21

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

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#22

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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#23

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

tags: inspirational, justice, mlk

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#24

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland

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#25

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

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#26

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#27

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

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#29

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

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#30

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: poignant

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