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    Kim Thúy
    “That estrangement, that detachment, that distance allow me to buy, without any qualms and with full awareness of what I'm doing, a pair of shoes whose price in my native land would be enough to feed a family of five for one whole year. The salesperson just has to promise me, You'll walk on air, and I but them. When we're able to float in the air, to separate ourselves from our roots -not only by crossing an ocean and two continents but by distancing ourselves from our condition as stateless refugees, from the empty space of an identity crisis- we can also laugh at whatever might have happened to my acrylic bracelet ...”
    ― Kim Thúy, Ru
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    Jenny Offill
    “There is a time between being a wife and being a divorcée, but no good word for it. Maybe say what a politician might say. Stateless person. Yes, stateless.”
    ― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “In reality, it is not so much a stateless society that we fear, but rather a family-less and friendless society where we rock gently, hugging our useless truths to our chests; solitary, ostracized, alone, rejected, scorned, derided. The truth is a desert island, we fear, and so, as evolutionarily social animals, we join our corrupt circles in mocking and attacking the truth and resent those who tell the truth for revealing the corruption that formerly was only visible unconsciously – which is to say, largely invisible.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux, Practical Anarchy: The Freedom of the Future
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    Leonard Richardson
    “The term “statelessness” is getting at the fact that the server doesn’t care what state the client is in.”
    ― Leonard Richardson, RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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    Paulo Coelho
    “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: faith, trust
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    Francis Chan
    “But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
    ― francis chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
    tags: christianity, god, trust
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
    Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: love, poetry, space, trust
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    Terry Southern
    “The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
    ― Terry Southern
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: crying, life, reality
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
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    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: change, life
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
    tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Andy Weir
    “Blissful unconsciousness became foggy awareness which transitioned into painful reality.”
    ― Andy Weir, The Martian
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  • #21
    J. Krishnamurti
    “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
    ― Krishnamurti
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: dread, unknown
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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    “I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.”
    ― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
    tags: attitude, belief-quotes, comfort-zone, danger, extraordinary, faith-quotes, fear-quote, health, inspirational-quotes, law-of-attraction-books, law-of-attraction-quotes, life-quotes, love-quotes, optimal, optimism, positive-thinking, relationship-quotes, spiritual-quotes, success-quotes, taking-chances, taking-risk, unknown-quotes
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    R. Alan Woods
    “It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love.”
    ― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
    tags: fear-of-failure, fear-of-living, fear-of-unknown, r-alan-woods
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  • #26
    “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
    tags: holding-back, life-lessons
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, change, destiny, empowerment, inspirational, life, mistakes, motivational, success
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: faith
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    Thomas Merton
    “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: destiny, life, purpose
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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