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"Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?"
— Henry Beston (The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm)

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"I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me."
— Charlotte Brontë (Villette)

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

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
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"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible."
— Russell Hoban

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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
— Lewis Mumford

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"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be."
— Socrates

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"Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart."
— Marlene Dietrich

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"I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking."
— Pete McCarthy (McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland)

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"I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink."
— Pete McCarthy (McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland)

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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
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"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder."
— G.K. Chesterton

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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: listening
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"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
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"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

tags: humor, life, memoir, truth
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: books, criticism, humor, wit
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"I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose."
— Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age)

tags: books, novels, reading
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"It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of personal unknowns must now be factored together with the frightening variables of experience. The future suddenly appears--it is the space upon which the answers will be inscribed."
— Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age)

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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: books, humor
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
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"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
— Nick Hornby

tags: books
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"Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

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"I don’t want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it’s my money. And I’ll bet you do it too."
— Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
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"One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

tags: friendship, understanding
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"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"the language of friendship is not words but meanings."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship
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"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
— W. Somerset Maugham

tags: character, friendship
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"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself"
— Frances Ward Weller

tags: friendship
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"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
— Walt Whitman

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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
— Walt Whitman

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"In the faces of men and women, I see God."
— Walt Whitman

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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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"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
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