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    Tina Smith
    “Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.”
    ― Tina Smith, Forbidden: Discover the Legend
    tags: god, love, wisdom, wise, wolf-sirens
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    Tina Smith
    “I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.”
    ― Tina Smith
    tags: author, readers-and-writers, sadness, tears, writer
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be an opener of doors”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: assistance, doors, passion, success
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
    6058 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: determination, fate
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: gratitude
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: motivational, work
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Every artist was first an amateur.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: artist, skill, skills, talent, talents
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
    tags: greatness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dreams
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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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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Alicia Keys
    “Love me like you'll never see me again.”
    ― Alicia Keys
    tags: love, proposition
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
    tags: fallen-anger, humor, nephlim, romance
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Chaim Potok
    “Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev
    tags: truth
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    Chaim Potok
    “Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.”
    ― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
    tags: art
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    Chaim Potok
    “I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Book of Lights
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Judy Blundell
    “I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.”
    ― Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
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    Amanda Hocking
    “When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.”
    ― Amanda Hocking, Virtue
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    Anna Bayes
    “I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
    ― Anna Bayes, Under His Wings
    tags: love, relationship
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    John Lennon
    “Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, love, sun, universe
    844 likes



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