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#1

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

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#2

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#3

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71708 likes

#4

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#5

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#6

“It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.”
― Felix Okoye

tags: african, author, felix-okoye, life-experience, nigeria, society

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#7

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

28796 likes

#8

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17088 likes

#9

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

12585 likes

#10

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#11

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

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#12

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: love

3879 likes

#13

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43899 likes

#14

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

6892 likes

#15

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

5615 likes

#16

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan

tags: nature

378 likes

#17

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

1045 likes

#18

“Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.

[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: peace, war

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