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    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― Steven Kloves
    tags: movie-quote
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, power-of-words
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
    7155 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”
    ― Terry Pratchet
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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  • #8
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    ― Jamaica Kincaid
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  • #9
    Gabrielle Roy
    “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
    ― Gabrielle Roy
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  • #10
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
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  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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  • #12
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
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  • #13
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. 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: adventuring, death, time
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Magic World
    tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading
    1552 likes

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  • #17
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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  • #18
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
    9013 likes

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  • #19
    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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  • #20
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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  • #21
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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  • #22
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
    4386 likes

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  • #24
    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    ― Temple Grandin
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    Steve Maraboli
    “The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: choices, day, inspirational, life, live, motivational, sentence, story
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  • #26
    Nelson Mandela
    “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: choices, fear, hope
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  • #27
    Danielle LaPorte
    “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”
    ― Danielle LaPorte
    tags: big, edge, lose, loud, someone, true, you
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    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    ― William Saroyan
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
    2241 likes

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  • #30
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    ― Bob Newhart
    2261 likes



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