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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: childhood, children, humor
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    Roald Dahl
    “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: happy, inspirational
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Nelson Mandela
    “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship
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    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness
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    Albert Einstein
    “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: compassion, kindness, serenity
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
    tags: desire, loss, midway, pride
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    “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”
    ― Ralph Sockman
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    Tracy Winegar
    “She allowed herself the luxury of a good cry, figuring that her tears were mingling with the downpour to soak into the soil. It was relief. It was joy. It was the knowledge that she had overcome, and it spilled out with her tears onto the ground that she had toiled with, to become a part of the crop she had planted with her own hands. It had sought to defeat her, and she had prevailed. Now, she was permanently a part of it.”
    ― Tracy Winegar, Good Ground
    tags: farming, overcoming-adversity, romance
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    Tupac Shakur
    “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
    tags: moving-on
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    Tupac Shakur
    “I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
    tags: bright, hard, life
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Henry James
    “Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
    ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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    Henry James
    “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
    ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: curiosity
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    Jaeda DeWalt
    “Learning to navigate the unpredictable terrain of life is an essential skill to develop. We can't live a happy life if we are unwilling to pave the path that will lead to our personal fulfillment and destiny. Learning to sit comfortably in the seat of uncertainty is challenging, but equally rewarding, because discovery is what waits just underneath the surface of that uncertainty and that gives us the chance to become fearless explorers, of our own lives.”
    ― Jaeda DeWalt
    tags: discovery, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, living-with-uncertainty, personal-fulfillment, wisdom, wise-words
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
    tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life
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    Charles Dickens
    “There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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