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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Ijeoma Umebinyuo
    “So, here you are
    too foreign for home
    too foreign for here.
    Never enough for both.”
    ― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
    tags: abroad, foreigner, traveling
    335 likes

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    Richard Brautigan
    “I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
    ― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
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    Claudia Rankine
    “Memory is a tough place. You were there.”
    ― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
    tags: history, memory, past, remembering
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    Alexander Chee
    “To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.”
    ― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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    Morgan Parker
    “I am a dreamer with empty hands and I like the chill.”
    ― Morgan Parker, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
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    Seamus Heaney
    “How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we’re shown?”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground
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  • #13
    “What if I’m a beautiful wound people dance inside of?”
    ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus
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encouragement
gandalf
inspirational
optimism
perception
pessimism
self-determination
self-responsibility
timidity
change
abroad
foreigner
traveling
history
memory
past
remembering