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#1

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

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#2

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

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#3

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

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#4

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#5

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

tags: horses, leadership, war

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#6

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: poetry

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#7

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling

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#8

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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#9

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life

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#10

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#11

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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#12

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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#13

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#14

“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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#15

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: thinking

1371 likes

#16

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

tags: love, pain

2999 likes

#18

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#19

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#20

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#21

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

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#22

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#23

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

tags: happiness, love

4708 likes

#24

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#25

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

1701 likes

#26

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#27

“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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#28

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: love-in-the-time-of-cholera

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#29

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#30

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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#31

“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems

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