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"To love another person is to see the face of God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

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"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

tags: laughter
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"If a writer wrote for his time alone, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
— Victor Hugo

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"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"The oldest fiddle plays the sweetest tune."
— Irish Proverb

tags: age, fiddle, music
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

tags: fear, inspirational
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"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens."
— Maria von Trapp

tags: music
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"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: vamps-dont-sparkle
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"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein

tags: music
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
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"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
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"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
— Mark Twain

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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspirational
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."
— Mark Twain

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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
— Mark Twain

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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
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"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
— Mark Twain

tags: actions
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"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
— Mark Twain

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
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"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women
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"Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not—
Too slender for the eye
It bears the Soul as bold
As it were rocked in Steel
With Arms of Steel at either side—
It joins—behind the Veil
To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: faith
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
— Mark Twain

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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
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"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, reading
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness
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"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
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"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
— Mark Twain

tags: blush
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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Act 5, scene 5, 19–28 "
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

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