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#1

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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#2

“If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.”
― Susan Jacoby

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#3

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: destiny, happiness, history, inspirational, let-go, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, success

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#4

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#5

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#6

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

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#7

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#8

“I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn’t.”
― Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot

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#9

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#10

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
― Henry Miller

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#11

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
― Jack Canfield

tags: inspirational

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#12

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#13

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
― A. Edward Newton

tags: books, infinity, mind, reading, soul, spirit, tsundoku

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#14

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#15

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: literature

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#16

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

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#17

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

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#18

“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”
― Henry Miller

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#19

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#20

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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