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#1

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#2

“Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.”
― Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth

tags: population

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#3

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners – all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. [...] But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. [...] It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world.”
― Henry James, The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition

tags: cities, city-life, life, london, metropolis

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#4

“The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’s out there somewhere. Every burn of every light inside every house I see when I look down from the rooftop has a story. Sometimes we just need to change our perspective.
And when I look down at everything, I remember that there’s more out there than just what’s going on in my house—the bullshit with my dad, school, my future. I look at all those full houses, and I remember, I’m just one of many. It’s not to say we’re not special or important, but it’s comforting, I guess. You don’t feel so alone.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

tags: inspirational, letters, new-adult, romance

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#5

“I’ve wanted everything in my life to change for so long, and when it’s finally about to, my urge to escape slows down. I think that’s why people stay unhappy for so long, you know? Miserable or not, it’s easier to stick with what’s familiar.

Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there’s no reward, we’re still so scared to chance it?”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

tags: letters, new-adult, romance

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#6

“You're everything. You're... You're chaos and order and everything between. Like sunshine kept back by clouds. Like the entire world's imploded inside you, but all I see are the stars are sewn into your skin. You're filled with soft, dark music. I hear it all the time. Your music.”
― Tara Sim, Timekeeper

tags: love, romance

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#7

“She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.”
― Lori Copeland, Unwrapping Christmas

tags: christmas

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#8

“Oh, what is brighter than the light?
What is darker than the night?
What is keener than an axe?
What is softer than melting wax?

Truth is brighter than the light,
Falsehood darker than the night.
Revenge is keener than an axe,
And love is softer than melting wax.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: bamf, bridget, burning-bright, light, poetry, riddle, song, truth

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#9

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

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#10

“ONE BUT MANY

One God, many faces.
One family, many races.
One truth, many paths.
One heart, many complexions.
One light, many reflections.
One world, many imperfections.
ONE.
We are all one,
But many.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: complexions, divide, earth, faces, family, global-peace, god, heart, humanity, humans, imperfection, light, love, mankind, many, mind, mirrors, one, parts, paths, race, races, refelections, root-races, sum, temples, tribes, truth, truthism, united, unity, universal, universal-love, we-are-one, world

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#11

“It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.”
― Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics

tags: appetite, books, cruel, discussing, dissecting, driving, ideas, kind, laughing, listening, listening-to-music, lofty, music, nowhere, obsessing, occasions, pop-culture, rare, reconnect, shared, talking, things, thresholds, tire, together, trivial, understood, wasting-time, yearned

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#12

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#13

“That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#14

“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”
― Thomas Moore

tags: london, sentimental

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#15

“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: london, new-york-city

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#16

“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family

tags: bethlehem, christmas, jesus-christ, nativity

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#17

“It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: adventure, adventure-time, adventure-travel, calling, desire, desires-quotes, doing-what-you-love, doing-your-best, exciting, exciting-life, excitment, greatness-quotes, mission, potential-for-greatness, potential-quotes, wishes-dreams, wishes-for-new-year, wishes-quotes, work-ethic, working-together, working-with-people

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#18

“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.

And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.

For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: art, creative-process, humor, writing

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