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    Amy Tan
    “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
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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
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Terri Irwin
    “No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
    ― Terri Irwin, MY STEVE
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    Erin Watt
    “I wasn’t seeking a place, but a person. I’d come home.”
    ― Erin Watt, Cracked Kingdom
    tags: emotional, love, romance, romance-novel, romantic, romantic-love, romantic-quotes, royals-series, the-royals-series
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    William Shakespeare
    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: cruelty, impact
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    Kevin A. Kuhn
    “Fear should be an advisor whose counsel is weighed carefully, not a leader whose commands are followed blindly.”
    ― Kevin A. Kuhn, Do You Realize?
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    George Orwell
    “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: life-happiness
    572 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
    9099 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Tomi Adeyemi
    “I won't let your ignorance silence my pain”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12527 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46747 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: own, things
    2725 likes

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    Horace Walpole
    “When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: clarity, decision, decisions, gardening, thinking, thought
    139 likes

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    Pindar
    “Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
    ― Pindar, Pindar
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
    2193 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23620 likes



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