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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Douglas Adams
    “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, money
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    “I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
    ― J. Richard Lessor
    tags: happiness, inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
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    Anis Mojgani
    “I know sometimes, that all it takes to be invincible, is to know you are such.”
    ― Anis Mojgani
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    Anis Mojgani
    “Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be”
    ― Anis Mojgani
    tags: inspirational
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    Anis Mojgani
    “You make me feel like honey and trombones. You make me feel like honey and trombones.”
    ― Anis Mojgani
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    Anis Mojgani
    “Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.”
    ― Anis Mojgani
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    Anis Mojgani
    “Do not settle for letting these waves settle, or the dust to collect in your veins.”
    ― Anis Mojgani
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    Anis Mojgani
    “Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.”
    ― Anis Mojgani
    tags: language, love, vocabulary
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    Anis Mojgani
    “So, tell me what my fists keep writing, my fingers, they open up like gates when I write...”
    ― Anis Mojgani
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: adventure, goodbye, travel
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays
    tags: beauty, travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: life, travel
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    Erma Bombeck
    “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: airports, luggage, travel
    228 likes



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