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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#2

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#3

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor

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#4

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#5

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#6

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#7

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#8

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#9

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#10

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#11

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

tags: connection

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#12

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#13

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#14

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#15

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

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#16

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: thinking

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#17

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

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#19

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

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#20

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#21

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

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#22

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: defend

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#23

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#24

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

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#25

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity

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#26

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

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#27

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#28

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

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#29

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#30

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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#31

“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

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