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#61

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

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#62

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

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#63

“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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#64

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#65

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, imagination

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#66

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

tags: creativity

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#67

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

tags: beauty, creative, creativity, dance, life, music

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#68

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: creativity, humour, pessimistic, writing

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#69

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: creativity, inspirational, writing

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#70

“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: inspiration, on-writing, storytelling

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#71

“Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: inspirational

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#72

“Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― W.H. Auden , Another Time

tags: death, grief, loss, love, mourning, poem, poetry

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#73

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

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#74

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books

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#75

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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#76

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing

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#77

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

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#78

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#79

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#80

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#81

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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#82

“Because paper has more patience than people. ”
― Anne Frank

tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting

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#83

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#84

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#85

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#86

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: inspirational

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#87

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women

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#88

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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#89

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#90

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational, love, spiritual

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