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#1

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day

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#3

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#4

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”
― Graham Greene

tags: devil, god

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#5

“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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#6

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: art, cybernetics, science

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#7

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#8

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#9

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#10

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas

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#11

“Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
― Kālidāsa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems

tags: hope

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#12

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: freedom-of-choice, good-and-evil

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#13

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: heart, inspirational

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#14

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: fool, fyodor-dostoevsky, heart

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#15

“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”
― Lucretius

tags: adversity, heart, peril, reality, truth

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#16

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
― Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

tags: chaplin, charlie-chaplin, love, naked, soul, vip

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#17

“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: laugh

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#18

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#19

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

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#20

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#21

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

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#22

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
― e.e. cummings

tags: inspirational

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#23

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: inspirational

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#24

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: inspirational, recreation

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#25

“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”
― mortimer adler

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#26

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

tags: wisdom

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#27

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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#28

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: confidence, publishing

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#29

“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
― Zig Ziglar

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#30

“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: believe, inspiration, motivational, zig-ziglar

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