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    Preeti Shenoy
    “if you have not made somebody's day happier, if you've not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!”
    ― Preeti Shenoy, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
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    Preeti Shenoy
    “Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have led a full life and contributed so much to the society and world at large. See, you have a gift. People with bipolar disorder are very very sensitive. Much more than ordinary people. They are able to experience emotions in a very deep and intense way. It gives them a very different perspective of the world. It is not that they lose touch with reality. But the feelings of extreme intensity are manifested in creative things. They pour their emotions into either writing or whatever field they have chosen" (pg 181)”
    ― Preeti Shenoy, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
    tags: bipolar-disorder, inner-demons, persephone
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    Preeti Shenoy
    “If I pretended to be "normal" and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell”
    ― Preeti Shenoy, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    tags: humor, memoir, young_adult
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    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
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    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    ― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: confidence, honesty
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: failure, passion
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    “I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: destiny, fame, lady-gaga, music, passion
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

    [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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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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    Michelle Williams
    “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
    ― Michelle Williams
    tags: deep-thoughts
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
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    Ved Mehta
    “Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
    ― Ved Mehta, All for Love
    tags: conversation
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    David Hockney
    “I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
    ― David Hockney
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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