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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: business
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    ― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems
    tags: water
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    Joseph Campbell
    “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: invisibility, seclusion, silence, solitude
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    Raymond Carver
    “The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
    tags: water
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    Anne Lamott
    “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Vera Nazarian
    “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

    At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out, together, togetherness, touch, touching
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    Vera Nazarian
    “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

    You can climb it and cross to the other side.

    You can go around it.

    You can dig under it.

    You can fly over it.

    You can blow it up.

    You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.

    You can turn around and go back the way you came.

    Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: choices, coping, difficulties, mountain, mountains, obstacle, obstacles, option, options, overcome, overcoming, surmounting
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
    tags: quoted-by-wally-lamb
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Carson McCullers
    “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Hélène Cixous
    “Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
    ― Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
    tags: feminism, self-expression, writing
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    Hélène Cixous
    “And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.”
    ― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
    it's always ourselves we find in the sea”
    ― E.E. Cummings
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    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    ― Herman Hesse
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    Anna Wintour
    “Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
    ― Anna Wintour
    tags: anna-wintour, fashion, look, people, quote, quotes, style, uniqueness, vogue, women
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    Brené Brown
    “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: courage, vulnerability
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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    Stephen King
    “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: hardwork, talent
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Beyond the bend in the road
    There may be a well, and there may be a castle,
    And there may be just more road.
    I don’t know and don’t ask.
    As long as I’m on the road that’s before the bend
    I look only at the road before the bend,
    Because the road before the bend is all I can see.
    It would do me no good to look anywhere else
    Or at what I can’t see.
    Let’s pay attention only to where we are.
    There’s only enough beauty in being here and not somewhere else.
    If there are people beyond the bend in the road,
    Let them worry about what’s beyond the bend in the road.
    That, for them, is the road.
    If we’re to arrive there, when we arrive there we’ll know.
    For now we know only that we’re not there.
    Here there’s just the road before the bend, and before the bend
    There’s the road without any bend.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
    tags: art, live
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    Steve Jobs
    “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

    [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: apple-computer-inc, identity, independence, inner-voice, life, steve-jobs
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    Caroline Myss
    “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
    ― Caroline Myss
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