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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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  • #4
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents
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    Eric Roth
    “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
    ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
    tags: benjamin-button, change, courage, time
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: change, holden-caulfield, stasis
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  • #8
    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
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  • #9
    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery
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  • #10
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
    tags: change, nicolas-sparks, the-last-song
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  • #11
    At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
    “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: appreciation, excuses, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, no-regrets, seize-the-day, success
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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  • #13
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, motivational, women
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  • #14
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
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  • #16
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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    Amy Hempel
    “I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
    ― Amy Hempel
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: renewal, summer
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  • #19
    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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  • #21
    Kenny Chesney
    “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”
    ― Kenny Chesney
    tags: kiss, smile, summer, wine
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    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
    tags: change, mind, summer, winter
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  • #23
    Lisa Schroeder
    “Come with me,' Mom says.
    To the library.
    Books and summertime
    go together.”
    ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
    tags: books, library, summer
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  • #24
    Susan Polis Schutz
    “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
    ― susan polis schutz
    tags: dance, flowers, happiness, happy, joy, summer, sun, wild
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  • #25
    Anna Godbersen
    “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
    tags: feelings, freedom, summer
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  • #26
    Aimee Friedman
    “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
    ― Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
    tags: people, summer, vacation
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  • #27
    Kellie Elmore
    “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
    ― Kellie Elmore
    tags: making-memories, memories, summer, summertime
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    Walter de la Mare
    “A poor old Widow in her weeds
    Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
    Not too shallow, and not too deep,
    And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.
    Up shone May, like gold, and soon
    Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
    And now all summer she sits and sews
    Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
    Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
    Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
    Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
    Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
    Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
    Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
    Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
    And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
    And all she has is all she needs --
    A poor Old Widow in her weeds.”
    ― Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie
    tags: bees, garden, gardening, grief, rain, seeds, spring, summer, sun, widow, wild-flowers
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