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#1

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: education, teaching

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#2

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#3

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#4

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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#5

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#6

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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#7

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

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#8

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#9

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#10

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

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#11

“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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#12

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#13

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

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#14

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

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#15

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: island, summer, youth

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#16

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: divorce, divorce-separation-children, we-were-liars

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#17

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: friendship-and-love, we-were-liars

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#18

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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#19

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#20

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

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#21

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

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#22

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#23

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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#24

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#25

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett

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#26

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#27

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

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#28

“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: inspirational

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#29

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

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#30

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

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