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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
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    pleasefindthis
    “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
    ― pleasefindthis
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Goodbye blue Monday.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: meditation, reading, writing
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Gilda Radner
    “While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Gilda Radner
    “Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Gilda Radner
    “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Barbara Pym
    “The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
    ― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
    tags: little-things
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of them.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
    tags: day, despise, every-day, everyday, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, little, little-things, miracle, one, one-of-them, small, steps, tiny, too-small, very-small
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    Irene Hunt
    “I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.”
    ― Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
    tags: beauty, contentment, happiness, little-things
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    “Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.”
    ― Antonia Montoya
    tags: abundance, gratitude, little-things
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: little-things
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
    tags: acquire, behavior, behaviour, belief, better, continue, do-it, do-it-better, enhance, enhancement, excel, excellence, excellent, faith, firm, firm-belief, food-for-thought, habit, habitual, improve, improvement, israelmore-ayivor, it-is-well, little, little-things, make-it-better, small, small-things, tiny, tiny-things
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “God hides great things in little things. In every young girl, God hides a great woman; in every young boy, He hides a great man; in a small seed, He hides a big forest! A little is never inadequate if God's hands are its creator! Don't despise little things!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
    tags: big, big-forest, boy, boys, creator, despise, food-for-thought, girl, girls, god, god-s-hands, great, great-things, hide, hides, inadequate, israelmore-ayivor, little, little-things, man, small, small-seeds, tiny, woman, young-girl, young-man
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
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    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking
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    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
    ― Eve Ensler
    tags: autonomy, carpe-diem, cherish, enjoy-life, self-empowerment, self-reliance, solitude
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    Gerard Way
    “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching”
    ― Gerard Way
    tags: enjoy-life
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: enjoy-life, problem-seeking
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, live-life
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, indolence, live-in-the-moment
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    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.”
    ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, inspirational, life
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, hedonism, life, pleasure
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    Rachel Ann Nunes
    “Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.”
    ― Rachel Ann Nunes
    tags: enjoy-life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: courage, enjoy-life, hope, perseverance
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem-inspirational, enjoy-life, joy, life
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