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#1

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

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#2

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

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#3

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

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#4

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

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#5

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

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#6

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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#7

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

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#8

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

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#9

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#10

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#11

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

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#12

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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#13

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#14

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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#15

“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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#16

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#17

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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#18

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#19

“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

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#20

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#21

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#22

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#23

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

tags: daring

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#24

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#25

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion

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#26

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

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#27

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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#28

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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#29

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

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#30

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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