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#1

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster

tags: life

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#2

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor

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#3

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

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#4

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#5

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

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#6

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#7

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#8

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#9

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#10

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

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#11

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

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#12

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#13

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#14

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#15

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#16

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#17

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#18

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#19

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#20

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies

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#21

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#22

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

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#23

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#24

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, words

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#25

“I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?”
― Steve Martin

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#26

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#27

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

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#28

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#29

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

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#30

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: hope

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