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    Jaimy Gordon
    “this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair.... this is horse racing”
    ― Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: planning
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  • #3
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Ray Bradbury
    “No person ever died that had a family.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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    Laura Vanderkam
    “If you choose your life's work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.”
    ― Laura Vanderkam
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth
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    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    ― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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  • #10
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence
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    Josh Billings
    “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: animals, dogs
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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
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    Osip Mandelstam
    “My turn shall also come:
    I sense the spreading of a wing.”
    ― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems
    tags: growth, poetry
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Concetta Bertoldi
    “A coincidence is nothing more than God remaining anonymous.”
    ― Concetta Bertoldi, Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs?: Questions You'd Ask a Medium If You Had the Chance
    tags: coincidence, god
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: life, unfairness
    3225 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: abilities, capability, confidence, optimism, possibility, skills, strength
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I dwell in possibility…”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: possibility
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land
    tags: impossibility, inspirational, possibility
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    Mark Twain
    “It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: plausibility, possibility
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    Thomas Merton
    “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility
    1016 likes

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    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
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  • #27
    “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
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    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing,
    then when the day is over,
    nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
    11953 likes



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