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    Hermann Hesse
    “I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Ayn Rand
    “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness
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    Henry Rollins
    “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
    ― Henry Rollins
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    Karl Wiggins
    “The Gypsies favour hazardous and threatening freedom over serene and tranquil servitude any day of the week.”
    ― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
    tags: courage-in-life, gypsies, gypsy-life, gypsy-soul, gypsy-spirit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Men. They thought they ruled the world but couldn't so much as take a step without, that very same night, seeking the opinions of their partners, lovers, girlfriends, mothers.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Hippie
    tags: feminism, hippie, men, power, women
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    Karl Wiggins
    “For the Gypsy, it’s moments in time that count, not interpretations or rhetorical questions or resolutions or justifications, and not even the journey’s end, for the journey never ends. Just moments in time. They are born for disappearing”
    ― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
    tags: disappearing, disappearing-time, gypsies, gypsy-life, gypsy-soul, journey-in-life, journey-of-self-discovery, journey-quotes, moments-in-time
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    James Joyce
    “You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    tags: life, love, religion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
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  • #10
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
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  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #13
    Patti Smith
    “To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”
    ― Patti Smith
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  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day
    2325 likes

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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
    ― Ernesto Guevara
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    Karl Wiggins
    “The Gypsies are living poetry”
    ― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
    tags: gypsies, gypsy-life, gypsy-quotes, gypsy-soul, gypsy-spirit, living-poetry
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: thinking, willful-ignorance
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    Charles Bukowski
    “What is your advice to young writers?”
    “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
    tags: advice, alcohol, authors, bukowski, cigarettes, drink, funny, humor, ironic, irony, sarcasm, sex, smoke, writers, writing, writing-process
    323 likes

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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
    tags: philosophy, realism-truth
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
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    Tom Robbins
    “Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: life
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    Tom Robbins
    “It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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    Tom Robbins
    “I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: gods, limits, men
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: 1000-quotes, author, confidence, empowering-women, excellence, happiness, inspirational-women, joan-of-arc, joy, love, powerful-women, queen-elizabeth-i, self-respect, warrior, warrior-women, writing
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    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
    ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
    tags: inspirational
    630 likes

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  • #27
    Werner Herzog
    “Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: inspirational
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    Werner Herzog
    “The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: herzog, hiking, perspective, street-level
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  • #29
    Anaïs Nin
    “Things I forgot to tell you:

    That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence to discover more ways of appreciating you.

    That when June comes back she will love you more because I have loved you. There are new leaves on the tip and climax of your already overrich head.

    That I love you.
    That I love you.
    That I love you.

    I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That’s what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
    tags: love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “You make me think of Casanova, except that in between the erotic, Casanova was boring, while you, in between eroticism and even because of it, you get profound.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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