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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Maya Angelou
    “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
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    Calvin Coolidge
    “It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    tags: greatness, listening, wisdom
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
    tags: compassion, empathy, inspirational, listening
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  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: listening
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: listening, successful, talking
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  • #11
    “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.”
    ― Ed Cunningham
    tags: friendship, listening
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  • #12
    “We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.”
    ― Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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  • #13
    “The most potent muse of all is our own inner child”
    ― Stephen Nachmanovitch
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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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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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success
    1875 likes

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  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
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  • #26
    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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  • #27
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Action expresses priorities.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, life, priorities
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  • #28
    “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: action, creating, humor, inspirational
    768 likes

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  • #29
    Orson Welles
    “I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: creating, discover, film, innocently, learn, pictures
    68 likes

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  • #31
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
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  • #32
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
    tags: insight
    1171 likes



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