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    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “What would you do if I died?
    If you died I would want to die too.
    So you could be with me?
    Yes. So I could be with you.
    Okay.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If only my heart were stone.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: heart
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have my whole heart. You always did.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: father, god, son
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion
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  • #7
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have to carry the fire."
    I don't know how to."
    Yes, you do."
    Is the fire real? The fire?"
    Yes it is."
    Where is it? I don't know where it is."
    Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Carry the fire.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #17
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore, strength, unity
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: humor, language
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Constant vigilance!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I love magic!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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  • #25
    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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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
    20051 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
    tags: self-confidence, self-reliance, self-trust, trust
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
    tags: self-reliance
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  • #29
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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  • #30
    Tiffany Madison
    “The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
    ― Tiffany Madison, Black and White
    tags: men, mental, mental-awareness, mental-disorders, mental-health, mental-illness, mental-strength, ptsd
    241 likes



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