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    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    ― Hal Borland
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    “...you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you.”
    ― Vesna Bailey
    tags: inspirational-love, mothers-and-daughters
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    José Saramago
    “If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
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    “Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
    I am the force.”
    ― Elaine Maxwell
    tags: book, elaine-maxwell, force, inspiration, inspiring, me, the-7-habits
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    ― Cynthia Ozick
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    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Elaine May
    “You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
    ― Elaine May
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    Paula Fox
    “The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
    ― Paula Fox
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    Halldór Laxness
    “For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
    ― Halldór Laxness
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Mona van Duyn
    “The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
    ― Mona Van Duyn
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    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
    ― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
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    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
    tags: books
    2573 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill
    tags: optimism
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    Ruth Westheimer
    “A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
    ― Ruth K. Westheimer
    1996 likes

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    Maxine Kumin
    “Cherish your wilderness.”
    ― Maxine Kumin
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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    Pauline Kael
    “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
    ― Pauline Kael
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    Josephine Winslow Johnson
    “The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
    ― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
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    Ian McEwan
    “It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
    ― Ian McEwan
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  • #30
    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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