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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Woody Allen
    “God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: god, humor, mankind, silence
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    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
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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
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “Be content with what you have;
    rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: contentment
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    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
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    Confucius
    “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
    the man of benevolence never worries;
    the man of courage is never afraid.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: wisdom
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: dreams, truth
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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    John Milton
    “Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”
    ― John Milton
    tags: hope
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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: art, beauty, music, wonder
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: strategy, virtue
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  • #29
    “Who can find a virtuous woman?
    For her price is far above rubies.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: purity, scripture, virtue, woman
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    Confucius
    “To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: virtue
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    Confucius
    “The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: bold, virtue, wise
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