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    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    Criss Jami
    “Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: ambition, attitude, bills, business, busy, career, design, enjoyment, enjoyment-of-life, ethics, food, hard-labor, hard-work, humanity, hustle, hustler, idleness, intent, job, labor, laziness, life, lifestyle, living, make-a-living, making-money, means, money, money-making, peace, peace-of-mind, purpose, reason, relaxation, resources, responsibility, slavery, slothfulness, vacation, vanity, vocation, work, work-ethic, working
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    Maya Angelou
    “Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: absence, break, peace, rest, vacation, work
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  • #4
    “When all else fails, take a vacation.”
    ― Betty Williams
    tags: fails, vacation
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    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
    1962 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
    ― Goethe
    tags: community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love
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    Oliver Sacks
    “We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices
    tags: blindness, cognition, communication, community, senses, sociality, speech, thought
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    Desmond Tutu
    “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: belonging, community, oneness, togetherness, ubuntu
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  • #11
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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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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  • #13
    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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  • #21
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Will Lavender
    “What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”
    ― Will Lavender, Obedience
    tags: answers, mind, stuck
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    Carmela Dutra
    “Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.”
    ― Carmela Dutra
    tags: adventure, backyard, books, fun, imagination, reading
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”
    ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
    tags: journals, writing
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #31
    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
    29735 likes



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