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“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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#2

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#3

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

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#4

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#5

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

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#6

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

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#7

“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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#8

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

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#9

“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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#10

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#11

“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra

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#12

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: life, prime-numbers

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#13

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#14

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#15

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#16

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#17

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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#18

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#19

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

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#20

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

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#21

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

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#22

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

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#23

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

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#24

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#25

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

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#26

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

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#27

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#28

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

tags: life

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#29

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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#30

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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