October 2011
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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may...”
– May Sarton
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Charlie Chaplin
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates
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“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences...”
– Saki
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“I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t...”
– Garry Trudeau
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“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
– Jean Giraudoux
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you...”
– David Bly
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“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B.White
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“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is...”
– Albert Einstein
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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...”
– George Washington Carver
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
– Khalil Gibran (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is...”
– Simone Young
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“You are never anywhere you don’t want to be….”
– Eric Richard Gabrielsen
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“…words—
a flock of birds in a tree
at nightfall.”
– Cassiano Ricardo
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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
– William Blake
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“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as...”
– H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”
– George Chakiris
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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
– Christopher Reeves
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“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they...”
– Vincent Van Goh
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“The person worth listening to is often the quietest person.”
– Japanese Proverb
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“When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or...”
– Joseph Hill Whedon
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“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were...”
– Rumi
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“If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on...”
– W.B. Yeats (via mirroir)
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“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no...”
– Abu’l-‘Ala’ al-Ma’arri
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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very...”
– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End of the Universe
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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is...”
– Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941 ; Calcutta, India)
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“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe in my head.”
– Yoko Ono (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
– John Muir
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“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
– Mark Twain
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“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Winter Girls
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“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody...”
– Helen Hayes
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“The bridge will only take you halfway there,
to those mysterious lands you long...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the...”
– William A. Ward
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept...”
– Harvey Fierstein
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“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.”
– Gerard De Nerval
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“I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to....”
– Yo Yo Ma
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs
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“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
– William Hazlitt
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“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
– Socrates
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“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
– Oscar Wilde (via myquotelibrary)
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“Good things happen when you meet strangers.”
– Yo Yo Ma
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“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic...”
– Steve Jobs
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“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall...”
– Suzanna Collins, Mockingjay 