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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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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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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspirational, love
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    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: repression, strength
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    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
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  • #11
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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  • #13
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
    tags: inspirational
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Kay Ryan
    “The day misspent,
    the love misplaced,
    has inside it
    the seed of redemption.
    Nothing is exempt
    from resurrection.”
    ― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
    tags: redemption
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    tags: bathing, humor, motivation
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  • #22
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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  • #23
    Michael Cunningham
    “The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
    tags: flight, flying
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    ― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
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    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
    6790 likes



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