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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Erin Hanson
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry
    2442 likes

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  • #5
    Erin Hanson
    “It's not the endings that will haunt you
    But the space where they should lie,
    The things that simply faded
    Without one final wave goodbye.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: endings, goodbye, loss
    169 likes

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  • #6
    Erin Hanson
    “Because the birdsong might be pretty,
    But it's not for you they sing,
    And if you think my winter is too cold,
    You don't deserve my spring.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: beautiful, nature, spring, winter
    585 likes

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  • #7
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #8
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Erin Hanson
    “My mother always told me
    No monster lived beneath my bed,
    But she had failed to warn me
    It laid on top of it instead.”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: monster, self
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11416 likes

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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Charles Bukowski
    “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: fire, love, magic, women
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  • #15
    Atticus Poetry
    “I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
    ― Atticus
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  • #16
    Anatole France
    “We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: bible, devil, god, scriptures
    255 likes

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  • #17
    Walt Disney Company
    “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: celebrate, disney, disneyland, dreams, fantasy, hearts, magic, tomorrow, wishes, yesterday
    611 likes

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  • #18
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13881 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “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
    12718 likes

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  • #20
    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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  • #21
    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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  • #22
    Ann Richards
    “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
    ― Ann Richards
    tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women
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  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #24
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    ― maya angelou
    tags: humor, inspirational, life
    6902 likes

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  • #26
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #27
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
    3289 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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  • #29
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
    3836 likes

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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
    3359 likes



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