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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Cheryl Strayed

Life, Beautiful, Knowing

"Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope, Children, Dragons

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Douglas Adams

Funny, Humorous, Hands

Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Anais Nin

Break Up, Creating, People

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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Mary Karr

Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

"Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

Love, Life, Inspiring

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

Simple, Expression, Simplicity

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

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Sad, Beautiful

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Oscar Wilde

Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson

Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

Change, Years, Editors

Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.111, Ronin Publishing

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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

C. S. Lewis

God, Faith, Christian

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Confidence, Powerful, Fear

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

Love, Funny, Romantic

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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Cities, Together

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Inspirational, Life, Learning

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

Hurt, Pain, Bystanders

"Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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