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#1

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#2

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

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#3

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#4

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

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#5

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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#6

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
― George McGovern

tags: anti-war, battle, death, old-men, peace, soldiers, war, youth

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#7

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: jamie-fraser

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#8

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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#9

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

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#10

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

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#11

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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#12

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

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#13

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#14

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

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#15

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

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#16

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#17

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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#18

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

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#19

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

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#20

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

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#21

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

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#22

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

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#23

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

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#24

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires

tags: language, poetry, words

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#25

“The heart lies to itself because it must.”
― Jack Gilbert

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#26

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

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#27

“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires

tags: language, meaning, poetry

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#28

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights

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#29

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

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#30

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

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