2026 Reading Challenge

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    Gene Doucette
    “I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I’m nothing if not trendy.”
    ― Gene Doucette, Immortal
    tags: humor
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
    tags: inspirational, love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Russell Baker
    “The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
    ― Russell Baker
    tags: writing
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    Alan Dean Foster
    “The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
    ― Alan Dean Foster
    tags: procrastination, writing
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    Nikola Tesla
    “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Albert Camus
    “There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: crime, logic, passion
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “Hell is just a frame of mind.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe
    tags: happiness, love, money
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
    tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men
    578 likes

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

    ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
    tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks
    1110 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: faith, inspiration
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
    ― Rumi
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  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
    The more he gives to others,
    the more he has for his own.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: generosity, kindness
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    Lao Tzu
    “The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
    Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”
    ― Lao-tzu
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    6673 likes

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  • #30
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
    411 likes



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