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#637

“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone.”
― Donald Miller

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#638

“Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

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#639

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

tags: change, initiative, time

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#640

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: love

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#641

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

tags: beauty, everything, seeing

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#642

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”
― Andy Warhol

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#643

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”
― Andy Warhol

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#644

“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
― Cornel West

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#645

“So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.”
― Pablo Neruda, Odes to Common Things

tags: lemon, poetry

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#646

“When life throws you lemons ... grab a bat and swing hard!”
― Kimberly McKay

tags: humor

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#647

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom

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#648

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: life

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#649

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#650

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music

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#651

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#652

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#653

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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#654

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#655

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dancing, inspirational

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#656

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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#657

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing, life, live-in-the-moment, movement, present

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#658

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: live-in-the-moment, senseless-worry

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#659

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
― Goldie Hawn

tags: carpe-diem, life, live-in-the-moment, music

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#660

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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#661

“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

tags: life, living, story

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#662

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: action, information, sleep

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#663

“It had never occured to me that thinking and music are so much alike. In fact, you can say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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#664

“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
― Ursula K. LeGuinn

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#665

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

3215 likes

#666

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: epistemology, future, philosophy

931 likes

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