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    “Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, prohibition
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, intimidation
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  • #3
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The feelings we live through
    in love and in loneliness
    are simply, for us,
    what high tide
    and low tide are to the sea.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
    tags: love
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  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The secret of happiness is very simply this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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  • #6
    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #7
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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  • #11
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inner-peace, self-acceptance
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  • #12
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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  • #13
    Anthony Doerr
    “But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    tags: time
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “This moment will just be another story someday.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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  • #19
    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability
    307 likes

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  • #20
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Writing is the painting of the voice.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspiration, painting, voice, writing
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    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    “The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience.”
    ― Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy
    tags: experience, fact, metaphysics, reason, sri-aurobindo, theory
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  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just as we see with Eichmann.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: favourite-quote
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  • #24
    Bhagat Singh
    “The day we find a great number of men and women with this psychology who cannot devote themselves to anything else than the service of mankind and emancipation of the suffering humanity; that day shall inaugurate the era of liberty.”
    ― Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist
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  • #25
    Bhagat Singh
    “Criticism and independent thinking are the two indispensable qualities of a revolutionary”
    ― Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist
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  • #26
    Bhagat Singh
    “But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”
    ― Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
    tags: chance, success, try
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  • #27
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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  • #28
    Jaun Elia
    “تاریخ کے حساس اِنسانوں نے اپنی زِندگی کا زیادہ حصّہ اداس رہ کر گزارا ہے۔
    زِندگی میں خوش رہنے کے لیے بہت زیادہ ہمّت بلکہ بہت زیادہ بےحسی چاہیے۔

    جون ایلیأ”
    ― Jaun Elia
    tags: happiness-in-life, intelligence, sadness
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  • #29
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: emotion, logic
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  • #30
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Music fills the infinite between two souls”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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