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#1

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: inspirational, motivation

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#2

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#3

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

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#4

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity

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#5

“Every fear hides a wish.”
― David Mamet, Edmond

tags: fear

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#6

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

tags: capitalism, greed, growth

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#7

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership

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#8

“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.

—should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden.

I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact.

I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you.

I want you under me. On your back.

I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough.

I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

You would say it's too soon to feel this way. You would ask how I could be so certain. But some things can't be measured by time. Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast. If only you—

And there it stopped.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

tags: angst, hannah-appleton, love, love-letters, passion, rafe-bowman, romance

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#9

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#10

“I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.”
― Edgar Saltus, Poppies and Mandragora

tags: life-is-a-dream, lives, living, sphere, spheres, spirits

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#11

“Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.”
― Hipolito

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#12

“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.”
― Hipolito

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#13

“Life is full of rooms, who we stuck with in those rooms adds up to to our lives.”
― House MD

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#14

“learn to live on the good part earn.
forego those things that lay without it.”
― Sopranos

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#15

“Then I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool
so will it happen even to me….
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy,
and drink thy wine with a merry heart;
for God hath already accepted thy works.
Let thy garments be always white;
and let not thy head lack ointment.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest
all the days of the life of thy vanity,
which he hath given thee under the sun,
all the days of thy vanity:
for that is thy portion in life,
and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun…
Walk in the ways of thine heart,
and in the sight of thine eyes:
but know thou, that for all these things
God will bring thee into judgment.”
― Paulo Coelho

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#16

“We all need someone to blame, that someone is god.”
― vasanthakumar rathinam

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#17

“It's always better to find happiness in peace than peace in happiness.”
― vasanthakumar rathinam

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#18

“Freedom is having the choice to choose from staying in the cage or moving out, not forcing someone to do either.”
― vasanthakumar rathinam

tags: freedom

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#19

“You blame yourself, for making a bad choice but when you are given a second chance to make a right choice, sometimes you just want to repeat your mistakes.”
― vasanthakumar rathinam

tags: choice, second-chance

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#20

“Sometimes we make bad decisions just because we were "told" not to.”
― vasanthakumar rathinam

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#21

“Life's good comes not from others' gifts, nor ill;
தீதும் நன்றும் பிறர் தர வாரா;”
― Kaniyan Pungundranar

tags: g-u-pope, purananuru, tamil

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#22

“Man's pains and pain's relief are from within;
நோதலும் தணிதலும் அவற்றோரன்ன;”
― Kaniyan Pungundranar

tags: g-u-pope, purananuru, tamil

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#23

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

tags: beginnings-and-endings

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#24

“What a sick, narcissistic society must be we to reward relatability more than credibility?”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: creativity, credibility, narcissism, relatable, society

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#25

“The sea tells you everything will be fine. The mountains tell you it doesn’t matter anyway.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: insignificance, mountains, nature, peace, reassurance, sea

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#26

“One of the most important struggles of humanity is to ensure that our ‘fight against hate’ does not become ‘hate’ itself – while knowing that our neutrality in times of oppression is oppression itself.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: fight, hate, love, neutrality, oppression, protest

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#27

“The only thing man is capable of creating is an ‘experience’. Everything else is just processing, arrangement and rearrangement of pre-existing matter.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: creation, creativity, customer-service, experience, experiences, processing

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#28

“Such is the villainy of the universe’s trickery – Moments commit mistakes and decades endure the misery”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: misery, mistakes, time, unfair, unfairness-of-life

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#29

“In simple words, ‘Beauty’ is what gladdens the heart. Neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body – If the sight of you generates happiness, you’re beautiful.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

tags: aesthetics, beauty, beauty-quotes, beauty-standards, happiness

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