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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
    ― Anais Nin
    1287 likes

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  • #4
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
    9425 likes

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  • #5
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
    23764 likes

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  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: advice, future, life, self-determination
    907 likes

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  • #8
    Richard P. Feynman
    “All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: failure, humor, inspirational, success
    371 likes

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  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
    4296 likes

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  • #10
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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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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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
    5318 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
    4235 likes

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  • #17
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Korean Edition)
    tags: anger, pain, wisdom
    189 likes

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  • #18
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
    1230 likes

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  • #19
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
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  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
    4045 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
    2984 likes

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  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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  • #23
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Hermann Hesse
    “We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: buddhism
    973 likes

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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22591 likes

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    Morgan Housel
    “Things that have never happened before happen all the time.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Morgan Housel
    “It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.”
    ― Morgan Housel
    tags: self-awareness
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: discipline, happiness, suffering
    189 likes

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  • #29
    Carlos Castaneda
    “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: confidence, inspirational
    1473 likes

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  • #30
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
    7714 likes



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