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  • #1
    Epicurus
    “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
    ― Epicurus
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: human-nature
    780 likes

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  • #3
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
    tags: friendship
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  • #4
    Virgil
    “Each of us bears his own Hell.”
    ― Virgil
    tags: hell, virgil
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  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “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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  • #6
    Maimonides
    “Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”
    ― Moses Maimonides
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  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #8
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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  • #9
    Edmond de Goncourt
    “Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.”
    ― Edmond De Goncourt
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  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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  • #11
    “A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ”
    ― Stewart Alsop
    tags: contentment
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  • #12
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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  • #13
    E.E. Cummings
    “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: inspirational-human-spirit
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  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “They do not love that do not show their love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    tags: love
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  • #15
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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  • #16
    Francis Bacon
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: misattributed-edgar-allan-poe
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  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37058 likes

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  • #18
    Carol "Pixie" Brearly
    “Hurt no more, fear no more, cry no more.”
    ― Carol Brearley
    tags: trilogy
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    Carol "Pixie" Brearly
    “Sometimes we try to hard to be something we are not, perhaps being ourselves is harder than we think.”
    ― Carol Brearley
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  • #20
    Carol "Pixie" Brearly
    “Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”
    ― Carol Brearley
    tags: art, emotion, painting
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  • #21
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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  • #22
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #23
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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  • #24
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
    tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity
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  • #25
    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
    Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: afterlife, death-and-dying, hamlet, shakespeare
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  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #28
    “My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal most of all. Good girls weren't supposed to open hell dimensions.”
    ― Lola Dodge, Temptress
    tags: heroines, novella, paranormal, romance, samhain, super-heroes
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  • #29
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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