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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teach is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. "
— Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)

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"We teach best what we most need to learn."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
— Richard Bach

tags: family
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"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
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"Don't Worry Be Happy"
— Meher Baba

tags: art, devotional, life, nonmind-yoga, perfect-masters, poetry, sufi, truth-process
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"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
— Joseph Brodsky

tags: poetry
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
427 people liked it

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
— Jim Morrison

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
211 people liked it

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.""
— Jim Morrison

tags: bravery, fear, freedom
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"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’"
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

tags: choice, freedom, timshel
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"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."
— Anton Szandor LaVey

tags: freedom, truth
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"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
— Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

tags: 100, austen, freedom, jane, page, walking
6 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
237 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,318 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,685 people liked it

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
939 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
686 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
579 people liked it

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women
844 people liked it

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: love, women
62 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,594 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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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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""The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." "
— Black Elk"
— Black Elk

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""To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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