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    Loren Eiseley
    “One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
    ― Loren Eiseley
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    Loren Eiseley
    “I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us”
    ― Loren Eiseley
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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
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    Molière
    “It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
    ― Molière
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    Molière
    “It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
    ― Molière
    tags: humor
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    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”
    ― Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
    tags: beauty, future, guru
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    Richard Brautigan
    “I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
    ― Richard Brautigan
    tags: on-writing
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    Richard Brautigan
    “Money is sad shit”
    ― Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings
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    Richard Brautigan
    “Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
    ― Richard Brautigan
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing
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    Erasmus
    “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    tags: adage, deceit, politics, wisdom
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    T. Rafael Cimino
    “We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...”
    ― T. Rafael Cimino
    tags: americans, greed, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, political-commentary, political-philosophy, political-science, political-theory, politics-of-the-united-states, religion
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    Robert Graves
    “Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!”
    ― Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome
    tags: humor, work
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “The covers of this book are too far apart.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, criticism, humor, wit
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    Bruce Lee
    “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    tags: bruce-lee, fighting, jeet-kune-do, martial-arts
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    Bruce Lee
    “Not being tense but ready.
    Not thinking but not dreaming.
    Not being set but flexible.
    Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
    It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    tags: zen
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    Bruce Lee
    “All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: friendship, gratitude, loyalty
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: gratitude
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
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    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: desire, gratitude, hope
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    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
    2365 likes

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    Kerry Cohen
    “I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”
    ― Kerry Cohen
    tags: sexy
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it.

    -Ella”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
    tags: ella-varner, jack-travis, male, sexy
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: hate, self-loathing
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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