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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    George Harrison
    “It's all in the mind.”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: beatles, mind, perception, psychology
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
    tags: inspirational, love
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    P.C. Cast
    “You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Chosen
    tags: chosen
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    P.C. Cast
    “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Betrayed
    tags: beauty, ethereal, inner-beauty
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba
    tags: death-note-another-note
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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “Rem: The way to kill a shinigami is to make them fall in love with a human.

    Misa: What a wonderful way to kill.”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 4: Love
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    Kurt Cobain
    “I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.”
    ― Kurt Cobain, Journals
    tags: bits, personalities, personality, pieces
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  • #11
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    tags: bathing, humor, motivation
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    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Michael Cunningham
    “The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
    tags: flight, flying
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Milan Kundera
    “Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I had no Freedom. I had nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
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    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    ― Francesco Petrarca
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  • #29
    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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  • #30
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
    17559 likes



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