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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
    tags: life, opportunity
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    ― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
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    John Bunyan
    “When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.”
    ― John Bunyan
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  • #9
    “Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
    ― Vivian Greene
    tags: dance, life, rain, storm
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    Bernard Malamud
    “There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
    ― Bernard Malamud
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    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Theodore Roethke
    “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
    ― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
    tags: life, poetry
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
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    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    “I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
    But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
    ― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall
    tags: courage, lisa-bergren, waterfall
    108 likes

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    “Don't stop climbing once you've made it your highest peak. You still have the heavens to reach.”
    ― Salyna G.
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
    tags: insanity, mental-illness, sickness, thoughts
    594 likes

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    Francine Rivers
    “We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
    ― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: belief
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #29
    “People know me more than I know myself.”
    ― Maribel Pagan
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    “A series of books is really one book separated into several.”
    ― Maribel Pagan
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130559 likes



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