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    Markus Zusak
    “I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “I'm not the messenger at all.
    I'm the message. ”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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  • #6
    “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
    ― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost
    1886 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    John Boyle O'Reilly
    “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
    Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
    Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
    Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
    ― John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly
    tags: advice, friends, inspirational, judgement, motivational, poetry, praise, safety, silence, true, trust, work
    599 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Things do not change; we change.”
    ― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: common-sense, inspirational, philosophy
    1047 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    tags: force, human-nature, individuality, liberty, strength, uniqueness
    1174 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: philosophy
    427 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: cost, life, price, time, value
    885 likes

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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
    21138 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: god, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, forgiveness, god
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: beauty, power
    1316 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
    tags: stupid
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, religion
    980 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: character-development, education, ethics
    1982 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spiritual
    385 likes

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  • #30
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    340 likes



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