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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Trevor Noah
    “People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
    ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
    tags: growth, motivational, self-help
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
    ― J.R.R Tolkien
    tags: bilbo, fellowship-of-the-ring, j-r-r-tolkien, the-lord-of-the-rings, the-shire
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
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    Criss Jami
    “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: achievement, barrier, determination, development, feelings, help, helping-hand, humility, improvement, inferiority, intelligence, knowledge, learning, self-improvement, taught, teaching, wisdom
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Criss Jami
    “One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: arrogance, attack, attitude, complex, creativity, creativity-and-attitude, critic, criticism, critique, danger, deceit, destroyer, destruction, ego, envy, error, falsehood, faults, finding, flaws, hate, haters, imaginary, inferiority, inferiority-complex, insincerity, judgment, lies, mistakes, pride, scrutiny, searching, searching-and-finding, sins, spite, superiority, superiority-complex
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    Criss Jami
    “Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “Good...if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he’s about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “The thing about stereotyping is it’s usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: abuse, addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, aqua, aquaholic, drinking, habits, health, indulgence, intoxicate, obsession, over-indulgence, substance-abuse, water
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