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#1

“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: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#2

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

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#3

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: self-determination, soul

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#4

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: hope, inspirational

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#4

“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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#5

“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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#5

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

tags: justice, love, society, wisdom

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#5

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

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#6

“¿La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…”
― Alejandro Casona

tags: happiness, laughter

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#7

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne

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#9

“There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#10

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

tags: critics, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love

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#10

“The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

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#11

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#11

“Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

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#13

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#14

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: attributed, growing-up, wilhelm-stekel

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#15

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

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#17

“We're all mad here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#19

“A scar means, I survived.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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#20

“...to survive, you must look good or talk even better.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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#21

“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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#23

“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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#24

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

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#25

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

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#26

“And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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#27

“I'll tell you a secret.
Something they don't teach you in your temple.
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
― David Benioff

tags: adapted-from-homer

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#28

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

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#29

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

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#30

“However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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