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    E.E. Cummings
    “I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: constructive-living, inspirational
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
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    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: self-acceptance, self-confidence
    787 likes

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  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Patricia Cornwell
    “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
    ― Patricia Cornwell
    tags: inspirational
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    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    ― Alex Haley
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
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  • #12
    “photographers who cover those situations, we do have a little bit of a screw loose in that sense of being like moths to a flame, being drawn to experiencing that fear. It’s a powerful magnet that pulls you in, of wanting to know what that’s like, and wanting to experience that fear, kind of wanting to see how deep that fear can run. Seeing how close to the flame you can stand without getting burned. Problem with that is, you stand a good chance of getting burned at some point.”
    ― Huffman, Alan, Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
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    “Moments of profound fear have a kind of beautiful purity, Anderson said. All of the gray areas of life disappear, and there is only the matter of living or dying. “And the simplicity of that, the crystal clarity of that, is so powerful, so beautiful and it’s—it’s hard to put that into words, but calling it adrenaline, or chalking it up to being an adrenaline junkie, that’s not it at all, that totally misses the point.”
    ― Huffman, Alan, Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
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    Terry Southern
    “The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
    ― Terry Southern
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    Tracy Kidder
    “... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
    ― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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    Elena Ferrante
    “I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.”
    ― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    Amara Lakhous
    “So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
    ― Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Duop Chak Wuol
    “A politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky—a move which amounts to a search for a new self.”
    ― Duop Chak Wuol
    tags: philosophy, political-philosophy, politics
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    Duop Chak Wuol
    “The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe—it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.”
    ― Duop Chak Wuol
    tags: discrimination, republic, south-sudan, thinking-reason, tribalism
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    Duop Chak Wuol
    “I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it.”
    ― Duop Chak Wuol
    tags: identity-politics, limitations-of-knowledge, tribalism
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    Duop Chak Wuol
    “Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.”
    ― Duop Chak Wuol
    tags: egotistical, fantastic, peace-making, philosophical
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
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  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: identity
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  • #29
    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Sylvia Beach
    tags: citizenship, identity, world
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  • #30
    Steve Jobs
    “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

    [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: apple-computer-inc, identity, independence, inner-voice, life, steve-jobs
    1002 likes



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