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    Nadia Scrieva
    “It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.”
    ― Nadia Scrieva, Drowning Mermaids
    tags: spirit, water, yearning
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    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Nadia Scrieva
    “Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.”
    ― Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness
    tags: destiny, fortune, friendship, impact, love, meeting, meetings, providence
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: birth, identity, life, self
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
    tags: creativity, great-quotes, inspirational
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice Through The Looking Glass
    tags: humor
    328 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules
    1168 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: adversity, sword, truth
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    Terry Goodkind
    “I am who I am; no more, no less.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: inspirational, self-awareness, self-realization
    447 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    Terry Goodkind
    “The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: sword-of-truth
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    Terry Goodkind
    “History is rarely made by reasonable men.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
    2215 likes

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    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
    3575 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: memories, truth, wishes
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    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think that they will sing to me.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    tags: loneliness, mermaid, observation, singing
    406 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
    Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
    When the wind blows the water white and black.

    We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
    By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
    Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    tags: mermaids
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Molière
    “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
    ― Moli
    tags: writing
    328 likes

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    Brenda Peterson
    “Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world”
    ― Brenda Peterson
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
    6060 likes

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    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
    2277 likes



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