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  • #1
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
    tags: aims, courage, creative-process, empowerment, experience, guenter-grass, memory, record-of-life, strength, writing
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  • #4
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Only when I fall do I get up again.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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  • #5
    Gautama Buddha
    “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: definition
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    Julian Barnes
    “History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: history
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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #9
    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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  • #10
    “All is calm, all is bright.”
    ― Joseph Mohr
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  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: emancipation, empowerment, feminism, gender, men, misogyny, women
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  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #14
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love
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  • #15
    Pablo Neruda
    “I want
    To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love
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  • #16
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Wilkie Collins
    “This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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  • #18
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #19
    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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    Pär Lagerkvist
    “Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”
    ― Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
    tags: childhood, growth, maturity
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”
    ― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam
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