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#1

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth

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#2

“There's no one who can't fight! There are only those who give up on fighting!”
― Reki Kawahara, ソードアート・オンライン 6: ファントム・バレット [Sōdo āto onrain 6: Fantomu Baretto]

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#3

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#4

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom

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#5

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
― Bruce Lee

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#6

“There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience

tags: anime, bakuman, dreams, reality, success, support

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#7

“There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.”
― James Dean

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#8

“You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: humor, inspirational

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#9

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: art, life

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#10

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24157 likes

#11

“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart”
― Carlos Santana

tags: globalization, social

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#12

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: conversation, john-green, talk, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#13

“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: expectations, mental-illness

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