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#1

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

tags: hide, protect, shelter

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#2

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#3

“I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion”
― Zona Gale

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#4

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#5

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#6

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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#7

“If you want to be happy, then be happy. Misery is a choice.”
― Lamees Alhassar, A Daily Dose of Wisdom: A Quote A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

tags: inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, lamees, lamees-alhassar, lamees-alhassar-quotes

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#8

“The only person who can pull you down is yourself. If you choose to pull yourself down, please don’t complain.”
― Lamees Alhassar, A Daily Dose of Wisdom: A Quote A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

tags: inspirational-attitude, lamees, lamees-alhassar, lamees-alhassar-quotes

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#9

“I'm going to let that slide because you seemed to have been in the middle of being eaten by a monster.” He was clutching his midsection as if from pain, the squashed remnants of a soft brown cookie squeezing between his fingers as though dough from a pasta machine.”
― BMB Johnson, Melody Jackson v. the Hound from Hell

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#10

“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― L.P. Cowling, Infinite

tags: cowling, human, insight, poetry, power, prove

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#11

“don’t suck your thumb, i’m near.
lean forward, suck in the gut.
scraped knees don’t hurt,
i can see through any walls.
no, this is the purveyance always.
transcends sight and follows you.
you’re a man, or not, now.
but i can still see through walls.
so, don’t suck your thumb, boy.
~”
― L.P. Cowling, PFI: Poetry Collection

tags: manhood, manhood-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, toxic-masculinity, toxic-masculinity-quotes

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