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    Pau Casals
    “To live is not enough; we must take part.”
    ― Pablo Casals
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    Christopher Moore
    “No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.”
    ― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Kathleen Norris
    “If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”
    ― Kathleen Norris
    tags: wisdom-grace
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #6
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humour, life
    1197 likes

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  • #7
    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Marianne Williamson
    “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
    ― Marianne Williamson
    tags: joy
    547 likes

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  • #9
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
    2166 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: compassion, happiness
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    Bob Marley
    “One love, one heart, one destiny.”
    ― Robert Marley
    tags: bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: compassion, happiness, tranquility, understanding
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: buddism, kindness, religion
    2519 likes

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    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
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    John Irving
    “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
    ― John Irving, The Cider House Rules
    tags: living, sad
    634 likes

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    Jimmy Buffett
    “If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.”
    ― jimmy buffet
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  • #18
    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
    3174 likes

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    Christopher Moore
    “Blessed are the dumbfucks.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: beatitudes
    451 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130348 likes

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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
    tags: hope
    4019 likes

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    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: books, house, simile, windows
    3192 likes

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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
    7419 likes

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  • #25
    Garrison Keillor
    “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
    ― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
    175 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32156 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: inspirational
    751 likes

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    Nanao Sakaki
    “To stay young,
    To save the world,
    Break the mirror.”
    ― Nanao Sakaki
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  • #29
    Nanao Sakaki
    “If you have time to chatter,
    Read books.

    If you have time to read,
    Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

    If you have time to walk,
    Sing songs and dance.

    If you have time to dance,
    Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.”
    ― Nanao Sakaki
    tags: japanese-poets, serenity, spirituality
    142 likes

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  • #30
    Anne Lamott
    “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    919 likes



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