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“I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.”
― Leo Lionni

tags: authors-kids-children-classic

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#3

“When they go low, we go high.”
― Michelle Obama

tags: equality, family, honor, strength, women, women-empowerment

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#4

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: life

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“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

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“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."

(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
― Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

tags: art, emotion, humanity, inspirational, science, truth

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#8

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

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#9

“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
― Maya Angelou

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#10

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright

tags: amnesia, humor, memory

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#11

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

tags: evil, good, history, invincibility, tyrants, victory

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#12

“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#13

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#14

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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#15

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

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#16

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#18

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling

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#19

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

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“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

tags: stories

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#21

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#22

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

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#24

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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#25

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom

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#26

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

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#27

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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#28

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran: Aphorisms And Maxims

tags: action, deeds, kindness

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#29

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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#30

“God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.”
― Laura Story, What if Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops

tags: christian, god, inspirational, opportunities

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#31

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#32

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: explanations

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