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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Jay Kristoff
    “He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking on a breathless lilt:

    "Pale Fox's Daughter,
    Her cherry lips haunt my dreams.
    Something, something, breasts...”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer
    tags: humor
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: danger, good, love, wild, win, yes
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
    with clean blood
    and organized drawers.
    I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
    at night when no one else is alive
    or awake
    however you choose to see it
    and I live in my own flames
    sometimes burning too bright and too wild
    to make things last
    or handle
    myself or anyone else
    and so I run.
    run run run
    far and wide
    until my bones ache and lungs split
    and it feels good.
    Hear that people? It feels good
    because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
    and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
    tags: ache, alive, alone, awake, blood, body, bright, burn, fire
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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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    “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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    “You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achievement, adversity, against-the-odds, ambition, barriers, battle, birth, challenge, chances, competition, conceive, drive, egg, existence, failure, fear, fears, giant, greatness, inspirational-quote, life, loser, margins, motivation, number, odds, power, probability, race, risk-taking, risks, sperm, sperms, strength, success, surviving, survivor, victory, walls, warrior, warriors, weakness, winner, winners, winning, womb
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

    A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

    A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, old-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, love
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: stars-dreams
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: night-day
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: art, comfort, life
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Freddie Mercury
    “My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,
    Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die,
    I can fly, my friends...”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: freddie, mercury, queen
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    Freddie Mercury
    “I dress to kill, but tastefully.”
    ― Freddie Mercury
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    Freddie Mercury
    “I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”
    ― Freddie Mercury
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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