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#1

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: inspirational

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#2

“The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
― Jim Rohn

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#3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#4

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#5

“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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#6

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#7

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#8

“The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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#9

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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#10

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: evil, ged, soul

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#11

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism

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#12

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: death, life, listening

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#13

“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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#14

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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#15

“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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#16

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

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#17

“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

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#18

“Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: compassion

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#19

“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: conversation, dinner, happiness, hospitality

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#20

“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: beauty

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#21

“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

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