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#1

“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

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#2

“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
― Dean Smith

tags: death, life, overstatement

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#3

“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
― Cher

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#4

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

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#5

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#6

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#7

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#8

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars

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#9

“the future is a concept—it doesn’t exist There is no such thing as tomorrow There never will be because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
― Alan Watts

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#10

“If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: letter

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#11

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio

3759 likes

#12

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

3046 likes

#13

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9168 likes

#14

“In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

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#15

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

1671 likes

#16

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: peace, self-reliance

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#17

“To bear trials with a calm mind
robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” —SENECA, HERCULES OETAEUS, 231–232”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

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#18

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

2318 likes

#19

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#20

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9122 likes

#21

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

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#22

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

4456 likes

#23

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2688 likes

#24

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6682 likes

#25

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2743 likes

#26

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

2486 likes

#27

“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

49903 likes

#28

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

544 likes

#29

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3348 likes

#30

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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