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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Sherry Argov
    “You always want what you can’t have.”
    ― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
    ― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    Suze Orman
    “Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.”
    ― Suze Orman
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    Suze Orman
    “Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”
    ― Suze Orman
    tags: writing
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    John R.W. Stott
    “We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
    ― John Stott
    tags: disturbing, patterns, word-of-god
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: chaos, patterns, random
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “You can only fight the way you practice”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Erin Hunter
    “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
    ― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
    tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors
    642 likes

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    Tom Robbins
    “The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: enemy, ignorance, tyranny
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    Chris Bradford
    “In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”
    ― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon
    tags: enemies, enemy
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    Howard Tayler
    “Maxim 29:
    The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

    -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
    ― Howard Tayler
    tags: caution, enemies, humour, rules-to-live-by
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “To know ten thousand things, know one well”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Do nothing which is of no use”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi
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  • #20
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    William Faulkner
    “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: newspapers, truth
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: seduction, soldier-s-pay, words
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    William Faulkner
    “Fiction is often the best fact.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31525 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
    3933 likes



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