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#1

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

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#2

“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

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#3

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: college, semicolons, writing

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#4

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
― Michel de Montaigne

tags: character-development

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#5

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: tolerance, xenophobia

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#6

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: travel-writing

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#7

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: career, earning

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#8

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bigger-picture, career, comedian, equality, farmer, hard-work, income, labor, meaning, money, nurse, occupation, self-worth, value, work, worth, writer

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#9

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. ”
― Margaret Young

tags: career, money

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#10

“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: career, future, grow-up, sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

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#11

“No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. ”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

tags: career, emily, giffin

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#12

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#13

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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#14

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#15

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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#16

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: music

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#17

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: boyfriend, fame, grammy, humor, lady-gaga, music, relationship

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#18

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits

tags: humor, individuality, music, musician, non-conformity

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#19

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

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#20

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader

tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity

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#21

“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.”
― Jane Austen

tags: anne-elliot, persuasion

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#22

“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: persuasion

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#23

“Every time you post something online, you have a choice.
You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away.

I tried to add something by starting Girl Online.

And for a while, it really seemed to be working.

So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world?

And if the answer is no, then please delete.

There is enough sadness in the world already. You don’t need to add to it.”
― Zoe Sugg

tags: bloggers, blogging, bullying, girl-online, internet-bullying, online, online-bullying

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#24

“It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class.”
― Joan Countryman

tags: blogging, journaling, reflection, writing

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#25

“Create a link through which you can market your dream products. Create a blog or a website of your own depending on what you want to be recognized for. Share your experiences through these media.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

tags: blog, blogger, blogging, brand, branding, create, dream, experiences, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, link, market, media, networking, personal-branding, products, publicity, share, social-media, website, wordpress

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#26

“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

tags: biography, inspirational, memoir, nonfiction, social-commentary

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#27

“I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

tags: biography, humour

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#28

“It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.”
― Edward Burns

tags: inspiration, screenwriting

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