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#1

“No one escapes from life alive.”
― Michael Crichton, Congo

tags: death, life

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

tags: strength, worry

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#3

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.”
― Wayne Gretzky

tags: wayne-gretzky

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#4

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#5

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#6

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

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#7

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#8

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: life, parting

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#9

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#10

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#11

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#12

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#13

“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#14

“Something good will come of all things yet”
― Jack Kerouac

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#15

“a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth”
― Jack Kerouac

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#16

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#17

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#18

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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#19

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#20

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women

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#21

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force.”
― Elaine Maxwell

tags: book, elaine-maxwell, force, inspiration, inspiring, me, the-7-habits

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#22

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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#23

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

tags: endurance, friendship, inspirational, philosophy

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#25

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

tags: examined-life, life, meaning-of-life, plato, socrates, unexamined-life

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#26

“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.”
― James Altucher, The Rich Employee

tags: curiosity, curious, inspiration, learning, mentor, questions

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#27

“Your thoughts define the boundaries of your life. Think big.”
― Kulpreet Yadav, The Girl Who Loved a Pirate

tags: books, happiness-quotes, inspirational-quotes, motivational, success-quotes

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#28

“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: philosophy, self-control, stoic, stoicism

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#29

“Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes.”
― The School of Life, Relationships

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#30

“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
― W. H. Auden

tags: ambition, focus, routine

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