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    Shaun Hick
    “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45294 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
    10662 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: talent, wisdom, work
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
    4280 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
    12726 likes

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  • #7
    Euripides
    “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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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
    6785 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
    21523 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
    48261 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35629 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    791 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
    4129 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: humor, sarcasm
    2020 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: personality
    1009 likes

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  • #17
    Robert Jordan
    “Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: fantasy
    116 likes

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  • #18
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art
    813 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
    5283 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: books, humor
    1852 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
    7261 likes

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    Steven Erikson
    “Victory is an illusion. In all things.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
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    Pierce Brown
    “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    643 likes

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    Pierce Brown
    “Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: friendship
    687 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
    tags: wisdom
    999 likes

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    Pierce Brown
    “You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: darrow, helldiver, leader, pierce-brown, red-rising, war
    1065 likes

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    Pierce Brown
    “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: enslave, free, injustice
    843 likes

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  • #30
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
    5043 likes



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