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"Don't feed the dragon and it will go away."
— Teri Flemal

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"there was a great deal of confusion and laughter and noise...of knives and forks, of corks and glass stoppers.

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— James Joyce

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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

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"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
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"We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it."
— Henri Nouwen

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"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over; it became a butterfly."
— Anonm

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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
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"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
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"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
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"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
— Anne Lamott

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"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
— Anne Lamott

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"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
— Anne Lamott

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"Expectations are resentments under construction."
— Anne Lamott

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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker

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"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
— Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing
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"In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful."
— Alice Walker

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"Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world."
— Henry T. Blackaby (Experiencing the Spirit: The Power of Pentecost Every Day)

tags: bible, holy, spirit
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. "
— George Burns

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"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."
— Emma Thompson

tags: books, reading
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"A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go."
— Anita Shreve

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"I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart."
— Steve Martin (The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel)

tags: love
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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, poetry
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"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: art, books
183 people liked it

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: art, beauty, music
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"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, love
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""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" "
— Maya Angelou

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"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
— Maya Angelou

tags: people
456 people liked it

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