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    Ovid
    “Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
    ― Ovid
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Yann Martel
    “I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: goodbye, heart, love, pain
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    Yann Martel
    “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: inspirational
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    Yann Martel
    “It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Yann Martel
    “If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: belief
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    Yann Martel
    “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: hope
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    Yann Martel
    “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: adaptability, madness, survival
    616 likes



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