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#1

“The secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: clown, fool, jester

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#2

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

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#3

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#4

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder

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#5

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning

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#6

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

tags: curiosity

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#7

“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

tags: curiosity

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#8

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dissent, independent-thought, science

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#9

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humanity, science

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#10

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: be-patient, brain, middle-grade, personality-trait, quality, science, science-fiction, scientist

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#11

“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: independence, lena-holoway, self-determination, self-reliance

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#12

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
― Horace

tags: be-strong, be-yourself, independence, inspiration, inspirational, life, living, rule, self-help, stay-strong, strength, the-mind

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#13

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: a-tale-of-two-cities, alone, charles-dickens, depressed, depression, dickens, life, lonely, philosophy, sad, self-loathing, self-worth, sydney-carton

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#14

“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
― John Mayer, John Mayer - Battle Studies | Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab | Easy Guitar Arrangements for Beginners | 10 Hit Songs from John Mayers 2009 Album | ... for Beginners

tags: alone, solitude

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#15

“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: alone, solitude, want

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#16

“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: alone, antigone, loneliness

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#17

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

tags: curiosity

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#18

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

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#19

“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: change, choice, choices, excuse, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#20

“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: cheerfulness, faith, faramir, optimism

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#21

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: caged, fear, gender-roles

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#22

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: eowyn, lord-of-the-rings

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#23

“i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: apathy

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#24

“I had always suspected myself of being almost purposeless, of not really having any single serious reason for existing. Now I was convinced, in the face of the facts themselves, of my personal emptiness.”
― Louis Ferdinand Celine, Voyage au bout de la nuit

tags: absurdism, meaninglessness, nihilism

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#25

“I’m claiming the right to be
unhappy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: chapter-17, happy, hedonism, rights, unhappiness, unhappy

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#26

“It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

tags: environmental-values, hedonism, human-nature, lost-values, needs-and-wants, prophetic, self-injurious-behaviors, social-satire-predictability, the-way-the-world-works, truth, wisdom

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#27

“I bled out on the floor
but no one knew because
I locked the door.
I cried loudly,
and hid it proudly.
That's what I exist for.
I died a little bit that day,
but no one knew,
so no one came.”
― Ashley Rose

tags: alone, bleeding, bleeding-out, death, existence, proud

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#28

“We shouldn't be this kind of tired at our age.”
― Yanna

tags: alone, depressed, exhausted, lonely, lost, sad, tired

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#29

“People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human contact.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

tags: psychotherapy

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