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    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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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    “I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”
    ― Theodore Isaac Rubin
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    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
    tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities
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    Wyndham Lewis
    “Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
    ― Wyndham Lewis
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    David Mitchell
    “You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: depression, human
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    David Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: cloud-atlas, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, science
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    Aristotle
    “To perceive is to suffer.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
    tags: criticism
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Julian Barnes
    “Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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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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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: sweetness
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    David Mitchell
    “The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.”
    ― David Mitchell
    tags: novelist, writer, writing
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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: children, education
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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