December 2011
90 posts
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...
– Paulo Coelho
November 2011
83 posts
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
– Marianne Williamson
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.
– Edgar Allen Poe
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I...
– Charles de Lint
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I...
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when...
– Deb Caletti, Stay
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so...
– Jimi Henderix
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You cannot teach a man anything.
You can only help him discover it within...
– Galileo Galilei
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I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find...
– Ron White
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is...
–
John Burroughs
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...
– C.S.Lewis
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
– Gore Vidal
To speak behind others’ backs is the ventilator of the heart.
–
Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so...
– Emerson Pugh, The Lucid Dreamer: A Waking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds by Malcolm Godwin
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars....
– Albert Camus
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Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will...
– Eckhart Tolle
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I hold three treasures close to my heart. The first is love; the next,...
– Lao Tzu
The heart asks more than life can give,
When that is learned, then...
– Sara Tisdale, Moonlight
I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
– Native American Proverb
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The world into which we are born does not exist in some absolute sense, but...
– Wade Davis
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the...
– Alexis Carrel
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
– Edward R. Murrow
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks...
– Carl Jung
Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.
– Arabic quote
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I read. I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything you read. Don’t think I...
– David Foster Wallace
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I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
– Bill Watterson
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The problem isn’t that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise...
– Theodore Rubin
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...
– Friedrich Nietzche
No, of course I don’t want you to love them. What they’re doing is…is…evil, but...
– Annexed by Sharon Dogar
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Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten...
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
– Shelby Foote
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
– Vincent van Gogh
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
– Arabic proverb
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a...
– Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
I care. I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming...
– Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life,...
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...
– Leo Tolstoy
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A grownup is a child with layers on.
– Woody Harelson
I could, if you’d let me, talk and talk.
– David Foster Wallace
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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of...
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God
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That’s what I’ll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
– Ellen Hopkins
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There is no better high than discovery.
– E.O.Wilson
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There are three ingredients in the good life: Learning, earning and yearning.
– Christopher Morley
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible...
– Aaron Copland
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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
– Gloria Steinem
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the...
– Shel Silverstein
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I wrote a hundred letters, I named a hundred roads -
You seem to read no...
– Rumi