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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

  "you shall above all things be glad and young" l. 13 (1938)

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• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Color, Being Different

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• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Adversity, Writing

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• The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Views, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.70, New World Library

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• What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Lying, Causes, Breathe

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• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, World, Unsaid

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

  Fred Pierce Corson

  Humor, Things In Life, Effort

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• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Powerful, Spring, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Humor, Commitment, Two

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• There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Workout, New Relationship, Something New

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• One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Country, World, Viewpoints

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• Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Faces, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2012

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• Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fun, Humor, Law

  Benjamin Franklin, Peter COLLINSON (1760). “New Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. By Benjamin Franklin Esq., and communicated in several letters to Peter Collinson, Esq. Part 1. The third edition”, p.59

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• The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

  Stuart Wilde

  Humor, Use, Abundance

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• Beauty would save the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Save The World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

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• Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Humor, Lessons, Misadventure

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• We go where our deepest desires take us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Humor, Desire

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Alan Watts

  Humor, Goes On, Want

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• Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Chaos, Break, Destruction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Arouse in the other person an eager want.

  Dale Carnegie

  Humor, Want, Persons

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Hurt, Long

  "Q & A with Garth". Interview, www.garthstein.com.

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• If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brothers Karamazov, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.805, e-artnow

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• Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Cutting, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.11, Penguin

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• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Axes

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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