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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Envy is ignorance,
    Imitation is Suicide.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: character, humanity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    W.B. Yeats
    “When You Are Old"


    WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
    And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
    And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
    Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

    How many loved your moments of glad grace,
    And loved your beauty with love false or true,
    But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
    And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

    And bending down beside the glowing bars,
    Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
    And paced upon the mountains overhead
    And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
    ― Rumi
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    John Green
    “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel-grace, john-green, love, tfios
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
    tags: manners
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: bad, liar
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    Alan Paton
    “But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”
    ― Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope
    tags: justice, offence, offences, punish, punishment, restoration, restore
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    Criss Jami
    “To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: expectation, love, need, relationship, restitution, selflessness, true-love, unconditional-love
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    Aberjhani
    “Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
    ― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player
    tags: broken-heart, determination, faith, grace, healing, human-nature, inspiration, perseverance, power, recovery, rejuvenation, restoration, resurrection, songs-from-the-black-skylark, spiritual-empowerment, spirituality, survival-instinct, world-suicide-prevention-day, zped-music-player
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    Alan Paton
    “Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.”
    ― Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope
    tags: promise, punish, punishment, restoration, restore
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
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    Arthur Quiller-Couch
    “Murder your darlings.”
    ― Arthur Quiller-Couch
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The rich get richer and the poor get - children.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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    Peter Ustinov
    “I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
    ― Peter Ustinov
    tags: culture, hell, humor, humour, stereotypes
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
    840 likes



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