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    E.E. Cummings
    “since the thing perhaps is
    to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
    ― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
    tags: fear, flowers, poetry
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  • #2
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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  • #3
    E.E. Cummings
    “may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living”
    ― e.e. cummings, Him: A Play
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  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: bird, communication, thought
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: life
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  • #9
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
    Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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  • #10
    Norman Maclean
    “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
    I am haunted by waters.”
    ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
    tags: flood, river, time, water, words
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  • #11
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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  • #12
    “Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #13
    “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #14
    “Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: alligator-poems
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  • #15
    “Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #16
    “My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...”
    ― Mary Oliver, Thirst
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  • #17
    “I feel the terror of idleness,
    like a red thirst.
    Death isn't just an idea.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #22
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #23
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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  • #24
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #26
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: love-friendship
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
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  • #29
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: inspirational
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
    7672 likes

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  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
    11915 likes



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