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#1

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

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#2

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#3

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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#4

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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#5

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#6

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

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#7

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#8

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

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#9

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#10

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#11

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#12

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#13

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

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#14

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

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#15

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#16

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#18

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#19

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#20

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#21

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#22

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#23

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#24

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#25

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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#26

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

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#27

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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#28

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#29

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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#30

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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