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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    Mother Teresa
    “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Max Lucado
    “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
    ― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle
    tags: faith
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
    ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    tags: faith
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    Max Lucado
    “You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.”
    ― Max Lucado, Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot
    tags: inspiration, self-image, uniqueness
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    Max Lucado
    “God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. ”
    ― Max Lucado
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    Max Lucado
    “Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!”
    ― max lucado
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    Max Lucado
    “Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”
    ― Max Lucado
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    Max Lucado
    “I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”
    ― Max Lucado
    tags: christian, gentleness, inspirational
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  • #12
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden, writing
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    George Orwell
    “He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: writing
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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  • #22
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I ask not for any crown
    But that which all may win;
    Nor try to conquer any world
    Except the one within.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: inspiration, wisdom
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Janette Rallison
    “Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer. ”
    ― Janette Rallison, Just One Wish
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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  • #29
    Bill Watterson
    “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, insufficiency
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  • #30
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
    13739 likes



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