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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #7
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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  • #9
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
    3792 likes

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    John Lennon
    “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity, fantasy, imagination, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: imagination
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    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, imagination
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: fear, heart, imagination, mind
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    Carl Sagan
    “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: imagination
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
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    Jason Mraz
    “It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.”
    ― Jason Mraz
    tags: dreams, imagination, inspirational, jason-mraz, life, love, test, truth
    514 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: imagination, reality
    759 likes

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  • #25
    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
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  • #26
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Imagination means nothing without doing.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
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    Henry Miller
    “Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
    ― Henry Miller, Sexus
    tags: god, imagination
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: action, dreams, hopeless, imagination
    137 likes

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: imagination, reality
    453 likes

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  • #30
    Graham Greene
    “Hate is a lack of imagination.”
    ― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
    tags: acceptance, hate, imagination
    456 likes



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