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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #4
    Milan Kundera
    “To laugh is to live profoundly.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49877 likes

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  • #6
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #7
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
    2161 likes

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  • #8
    Steve Biko
    “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
    ― Stephen Bantu Biko, Black Consciousness in South Africa
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  • #9
    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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  • #11
    Billy Graham
    “My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
    ― Billy Graham
    tags: inspirational, spiritual
    105 likes

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  • #12
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128920 likes

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  • #14
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #15
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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  • #16
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64651 likes

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  • #17
    Elie Wiesel
    “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
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    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
    ― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
    tags: determination, pain, perseverance, quitting
    421 likes

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  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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  • #20
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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  • #21
    Virginia Woolf
    “So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: clouds, morning, sea, sky, wind
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  • #22
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
    21578 likes

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  • #23
    “People who demand signs never believe them when they come.”
    ― Michael Card
    tags: belief, christianity, inspirational, religion
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  • #24
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
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  • #25
    Thomas Keneally
    “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
    ― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
    tags: humanity, life
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  • #26
    Maurice Sendak
    “And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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  • #27
    Anne Graham Lotz
    “If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.”
    ― Anne Graham Lotz, The Magnificent Obsession: Embracing the God-Filled Life
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  • #28
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
    7910 likes



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