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#1

“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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#2

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age

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#3

“I think we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.”
― Chocolat

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#4

“If you have one teapot,” he said, pouring hot water over tea leaves, “that will do you quite well. How much does he lack himself who must have a lot of things?” “You’re quoting Sen Rikyū,”
― Gigi Pandian, The Accidental Alchemist

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#5

“You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.”
― Tom Robbins

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#6

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: belief, faith

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#7

“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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#8

“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

tags: heartache, love, poetry, save, wolves

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#9

“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: truth-art

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#10

“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: courage, inspiration, love, stories

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#11

“I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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#12

“I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.”
― Brooke Hampton

tags: alive, coffee, dance, magic, smile, soul

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#13

“I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of the ocean, watching a sunset, the smell of rain and starry nights.”
― Brooke Hampton

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#14

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: bossypants, tina-fey

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#15

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
― Jim Henson

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#16

“The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.”
― Gregory Colbert

tags: inspiration

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#17

“Letter 68

A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea.
My sister and I put our ears to the bottom of the boat so we could listen to their songs.

We turned to my grandfather and asked, "What do their song mean?"

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer," he said.
"They sing because they have a song.”
― Gregory Colbert, Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters

tags: ashes-and-snow, letter

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#18

“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: world

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#19

“Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.”
― Carol Emshwiller, The Mount

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#20

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

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#21

“It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That’s the one with a story.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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#22

“Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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#23

“Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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#24

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

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#25

“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: dogs, human-nature, love

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#26

“Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: appreciate, arts, humanity, read

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#27

“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: animals, humanity, poems

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#28

“May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: joy

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#29

“Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: inspirational-attitude, motherhood

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#30

“She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: vegan, vegetarian

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