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    Bruce Lee
    “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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    Colleen Hoover
    “You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, November 9
    tags: love, self-discovery
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Colleen Hoover
    “It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, November 9
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    Bruce Lee
    “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: goals, vision
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
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    Bruce Lee
    “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: adaptation, life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder
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    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
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    Joe Vitale
    “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung”
    ― Joe Vitale, Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    tags: iinspiration, life-lessons, purpose, spirituality
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  • #14
    “It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”
    ― Isaac Disraeli
    tags: complacency, opportunity, performance
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    Matt Smith
    “We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one”
    ― Matt Smith
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    Matt Smith
    “I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”
    ― Matt Smith
    tags: doctor-who
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
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    “But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.”
    ― Cameron Dokey, Kissed: Once Upon A Time Omnibus Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child
    tags: fear, fools
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    Thomas Gray
    “Where ignorance is bliss,
    'Tis folly to be wise.

    - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
    ― Thomas Gray, Gray and Collins: Poetical Works
    tags: childhood, ignorance, knowledge, nostalgia, youth
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    Thomas Gray
    “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
    And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave
    Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
    The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
    ― Thomas Gray
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    Thomas Gray
    “Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,
    Since sorrow never comes too late,
    And happiness too swiftly flies?
    Thought would destroy their Paradise.
    No more;—where ignorance is bliss,
    'Tis folly to be wise.”
    ― Thomas Gray, The complete English poems of Thomas Gray
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: forgetting, hate, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, living, strength
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: defiant, freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life-and-living, self-belief, self-love, self-worth, society
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery
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