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#1

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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#2

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

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#4

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#5

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#6

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace

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#7

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#8

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

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#9

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

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#10

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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#11

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

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#12

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#13

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#14

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

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#15

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

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#16

“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”
― Babette Deutsch

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#17

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#18

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#19

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

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#20

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#21

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#22

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#23

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

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#24

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

tags: writing

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#25

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#26

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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#27

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

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#28

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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#29

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#30

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

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#31

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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