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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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    Golda Poretsky
    “You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.”
    ― Golda Poretsky
    tags: empowering, empowerment, self-help, self-knowledge, self-love
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    “Other than the love of God; the greatest love is self love. You have to love yourself more than you love someone else in order to succeed in a prosperous life.”
    ― Barbara Hart
    tags: self-love
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    Louise L. Hay
    “You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.”
    ― Louise L. Hay
    tags: heal-your-life, healing, helplessness, motivation, personal-power, power, powerlessness, self-esteem, writer
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    Louise L. Hay
    “I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
    ― Louise L. Hay
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    “Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous
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    Pico Iyer
    “A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
    ― Pico Iyer
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    Pico Iyer
    “As I wandered around the room, with Sachiko by my side, I began to think how much we need space in those we love, space enough to accommodate growth and possibility. Knowledge must leave room for mystery; intimacy, taken too far, was the death of imagination. Keeping some little distance from her was, I thought, a way of keeping an open space, a silence for the imagination to fill.
    "At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things," Thoreau had written, "we require that all things be mysterious and unexplainable.”
    ― Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
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    Pico Iyer
    “Families are so important here," I said. She looked surprised. "They are not everywhere?”
    ― Pico Iyer, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
    tags: family
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    Pico Iyer
    “If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards.”
    ― Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: forgetting, lover, oblivion, opiate, sleep
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
    ― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
    tags: humor, independent-thought, reasoning, self-trust
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: beauty, prettiness, self-esteem
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    tags: dance, dancing, life
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    “To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.”
    ― Agnes De Mille
    tags: dancing
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    “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
    ― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS
    tags: anxiety, brilliance, darkness, difficulties, life
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France
    tags: books, introvert, solitude
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    Ovid
    “Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: inspirational, strength-and-courage
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    Julian of Norwich
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: hope-springs-eternal
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    Louise Penny
    “Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath.”
    ― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling
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    Louise Penny
    “We all do stupid, cruel things as children. I remember I once took a neighbor's dog and shut it in my house, then told the little girl her dog had been picked up by the dog catcher and destroyed. I still wake up at three in the morning seeing her face. I tracked her down about ten years ago to say I was sorry but she'd been killed in a car accident."
    "You have to forgive yourself", said Gamache, holding up Being.
    "You're right, of course. But maybe I don't want to. Maybe that's something I don't want to lose. My own private hell. Horrible, but mine.”
    ― Louise Penny
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    Louise Penny
    “But, like peace, comfort didn’t come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Louise Penny
    “How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Louise Penny
    “Do you know what I’ve learned, after three decades of death?” Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. “I’ve learned how precious life is.”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Louise Penny
    “Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There’s a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.”
    ― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
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    Louise Penny
    “Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they’re meant to protect?”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Louise Penny
    “I think you might try leading your life as though it’s just you. If he comes back and you know your life will be better with him, then great. But you’ll also know you’re enough on your own.”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Louise Penny
    “So that over time, clever became cunning. Dynamic became obsessed. Ambitious became ruthless.”
    ― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
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    Mark Gorman
    “Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC”
    ― Mark Gorman
    tags: god, inspirational, mark-gorman, panic, relax, worry
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