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#1

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#2

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#3

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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#4

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: boasting, popularity

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#5

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#6

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger

tags: love

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#7

“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

tags: life, love, people, universe

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#8

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: devotion, fate, love

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#9

“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#10

“The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#11

“There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#12

“It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.”
― Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

tags: ageism, aging, growing-older, homophobia, racism, sexism, sexism-quotes, social-justice

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#13

“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can fully identify with others' reactions to those distressing experiences. Only those who have been members of marginalised minority can fully appreciate how that feels. [p50]”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

tags: adversity, ageism, empathy-diversity, marginalised-groups, mental-illness-stigma, perspective, poverty, racism, sexism

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#14

“It is extremely disturbing to live in a society that sees older people as a burden rather than rich experiences to benefit from and build upon. Older people can act as the memory that can help us make sense of what was, what is, and what could and should be. I see that in the U.S. older people are not only made invisible in a culture obsessed with youth and superficial physical appearances, but often their insights, experiences, and perspectives are dismissed as ‘nostalgic’ or as outright ‘ignorant’ using the ‘generational gap’ as a pretext.”
― Louis Yako

tags: age-discrimination, ageism, aging, elderly-care, kindness, nostalgia, wisdom

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#15

“Ambition doesn’t end on a particular birthday. Own it and live it.”
― Bonnie Marcus, Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power

tags: age-bias, age-discrimination, ageism, aging, gendered-ageism, office-politics, women-at-work, women-empowerment, women-over-50, workplace-politics

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#16

“When did wrinkles become shameful and when did we start buying into all this bullshit?”
― Bonnie Marcus, Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power

tags: age-bias, age-discrimination, ageism, aging, gendered-ageism, office-politics, women-at-work, women-empowerment, women-over-50, workplace-politics

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#17

“What a waste of time it is to be anxious and worried about aging instead of living.”
― Bonnie Marcus, Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power

tags: age-bias, age-discrimination, ageism, aging, gendered-ageism, office-politics, women-at-work, women-empowerment, women-over-50, workplace-politics

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#18

“Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural.”
― Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

tags: ageism, aging, dying, fear-of-dying, growing-older, homophobia, racism, sexism, sexism-quotes

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#19

“I believe you do not deserve words like “anti-wrinkle” and “anti-aging.” Your experience as a woman is much too rich to be rewritten in favor of artificial youthfulness.”
― Ashley Asti, Dear Sisters: Your Nature is to Bloom

tags: aging, anti-aging, be-yourself, beauty, real-beauty, self-love, woman-s-strength, womanhood, wrinkles

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#20

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

tags: first-love

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#21

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: shyness, social-anxiety, truth

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#22

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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