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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: appreciation, joy-of-life
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
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    Bohumil Hrabal
    “I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
    ― Bohumil Hrabal
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    Alice Walker
    “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: philosophy, wonder
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
    Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

    Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
    ― Rumi
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    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!”
    ― Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Alice Walker
    “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: animals, men, race, women
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    Alice Walker
    “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “Everything want to be loved.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”
    ― Alice Walker
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    Alice Walker
    “I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “Let ’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker
    “There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: unhappiness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Nikita Gill
    “You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: breakup, hurt, love-quotes, relationship, romantic, sad, sad-quotes, storm
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    Ranata Suzuki
    “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, ocean, ocean-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, silence, silence-quote, silence-quotes, the-one-that-got-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you
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    Sanober Khan
    “To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”
    ― Sanober Khan
    tags: falling-in-love, indian-authors, love-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, romance, romancing, splendid, thoughts
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