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    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Tomasz Jedrowski
    “I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
    ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
    tags: heartbreak, love
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    Philippe Besson
    “Why me?

    He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.

    He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
    ― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: god, joy, life, spirituality
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16751 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
    tags: goodness, heart, life, living
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Leah Raeder
    “I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”
    ― Leah Raeder, Unteachable
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    Suzanne Selfors
    “Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.”
    ― Suzanne Selfors, Coffeehouse Angel
    tags: amble, ambler, amblers, dabble, dabbler, dabblers, direction, life, like-me, mantra, no-idea, purpose, purpose-in-life, purposeless, purposelessness, united, wander, wanderer, wanderers
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “He kissed her as if he could breathe her in. Fierce kisses, hard ones, teasingly articulate ones, soft enticing ones, kisses to light bonfires and fill the sky and hold the stars aloft.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
    tags: amelia-hathaway, cam-and-amelia, cam-rohan, kiss, kisses, kissing, love, romance, romantic
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  • #14
    “Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.”
    ― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research
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    Luna Lacour
    “It's a funny thing, how people go. How you can be so consumed by one person, and then as the years go by, like a slow-working serum, something seeps into your skin that renders the person you once loved so dearly a total stranger.”
    ― Luna Lacour, Star-Crossed
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    Gail Honeyman
    “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
    ― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
    tags: books, libraries, reading
    741 likes



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