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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Robert Jordan
    “I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: adulthood, fairy-tales
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    “Never put off writing until you are better at it.”
    ― Gary Henderson
    tags: encouragement, improvement, on-writing, writing
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: happiness
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    Barbara Pym
    “Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”
    ― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
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    Henry Clay
    “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
    ― Henry Clay
    tags: blessings, courtesy, gifts, gratitude, thankfulness
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Virginia Woolf
    “And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    John Muir
    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
    ― John Muir
    tags: forest, outdoors, wilderness-quotes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: ernest-hemingway, kiss, love, trouble
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: friendship, heart, kindness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Let us go on and take the adventures that shall fall to us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: adventures, narnia
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    “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
    ― Shanti
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: happiness, inspiration, life
    2331 likes



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