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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    W.H. Auden
    “The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: fairy-tales
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: lotr
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: unity
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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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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    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
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    Albert Einstein
    “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: funny
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
    tags: heaven, reading
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    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    ― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
    tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: inner-strength, self-confidence, self-contentment
    656 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “What we do now echoes in eternity.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “We are the other of the other”
    ― Marco Aurelio
    tags: other, strange
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    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    ― Elizabeth Appell
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Maya Angelou
    “There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    W.B. Yeats
    “What can be explained is not poetry.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: poetry, yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “There is another world, but it is in this one.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
    7860 likes



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