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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Doris Lessing
    “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: friendship, love, trust
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
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    Patricia Cornwell
    “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
    ― Patricia Cornwell
    tags: inspirational
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    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Redwall
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    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    ― Tuli Kupferberg
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Alice Dalgliesh
    “What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
    ― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
    3594 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    ― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems
    tags: water
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  • #19
    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots
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    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: life, poetry
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    Neal Stephenson
    “See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    ― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
    tags: destiny, path
    2109 likes

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    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
    3380 likes

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    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    ― Philippe Ariès
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  • #26
    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    ― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
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    Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    “Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
    ― Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational
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    Jean Genet
    “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
    ― Jean Genet
    tags: darkness, dreams, time
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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
    2216 likes



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