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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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  • #38
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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  • #39
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: diamond, tooth
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.
    Instead of paying attention to what's going on inside me.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: abstract-thinking, academic-education, inner-monologue, over-intellectualizing
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    Donald Miller
    “[He] said he didn't think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it's that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
    tags: whimsy
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    Michael Ende
    “To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
    But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
    Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: joy, poetry, sorrow
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    John Irving
    “In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: humor
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    John Irving
    “In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: humor
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  • #47
    John Irving
    “You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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    John Irving
    “It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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  • #49
    John Irving
    “but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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  • #50
    John Irving
    “There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean".”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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  • #51
    John Irving
    “a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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  • #52
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness
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  • #53
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
    tags: depression, sadness
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    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: inspirational
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