3367966
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Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
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life
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E.M. Forster |
5cf452e
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Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world
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america
greatest
the-newsroom
tv-series
world
life
inspirational
scene
monologue
country
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Aaron Sorkin |
04186b2
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Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.
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present
sleep
life
waking-up
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Christopher Isherwood |
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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life
ordinary
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H. P. Lovecraft |
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
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relationships
life
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
ebdc978
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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
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worship
inspiration
religion
god
hope
life
love
truth
verse
reverence
thankful
kingdom
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Anonymous |
d56d666
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Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
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life
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George R.R. Martin |
ae158b9
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I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
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moving-on
life
moving-forward
growing-up
growth
self
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Roger Zelazny |
8843716
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The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.
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life
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Nicholas Sparks |
13241c8
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When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?
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best-day
motivational
life
inspirational
today
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Steve Maraboli |
4c58bc3
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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
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magic
life
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Neil Gaiman |
8e1f6c3
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if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.
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life
salem-falls
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Jodi Picoult |
d0f2312
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He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
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life
love
ian-mcewan
love-conquers-all
sad
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Ian McEwan |
a062275
|
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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strength
life
perspective
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Ken Kesey |
62b98b9
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It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
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relationships
friendship
life
love
inspirational
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett |
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When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
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life
inspirational
perspective
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Joan Marques |
872361e
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]
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life
love
inspirational
|
Stephanie Perkins |
8e2226d
|
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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life
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Robert Jordan |
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When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
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life
inspirational
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Michael J. Sullivan |
27b8f3e
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When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
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life
humans
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Tom Robbins |
1fb3c02
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"A Second Childhood." When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God's ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror from the tree And stones still shine along the road That are and cannot be. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for wine, But I shall not grow too old to see Unearthly daylight shine, Changing my chamber's dust to snow Till I doubt if it be mine. Behold, the crowning mercies melt, The first surprises stay; And in my dross is dropped a gift For which I dare not pray: That a man grow used to grief and joy But not to night and day. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for lies; But I shall not grow too old to see Enormous night arise, A cloud that is larger than the world And a monster made of eyes. Nor am I worthy to unloose The latchet of my shoe; Or shake the dust from off my feet Or the staff that bears me through On ground that is too good to last, Too solid to be true. Men grow too old to woo, my love, Men grow too old to wed; But I shall not grow too old to see Hung crazily overhead Incredible rafters when I wake And I find that I am not dead. A thrill of thunder in my hair: Though blackening clouds be plain, Still I am stung and startled By the first drop of the rain: Romance and pride and passion pass And these are what remain. Strange crawling carpets of the grass, Wide windows of the sky; So in this perilous grace of God With all my sins go I: And things grow new though I grow old, Though I grow old and die."
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joy
wonder
death
life
love
old
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G.K. Chesterton |
b6098d0
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'.
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family
life
love
truth
concern
support
fact
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Mitch Albom |
9b62e1c
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I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.
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learning
meaning
life
truth
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Daniel Keyes |
fd06ae1
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"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even?
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people
life
love
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Roald Dahl |
250fbfc
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Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him
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sobriety
sobriety-courage
inspirational-quotes
hope
life
inspirational
hope-quotes
sober
|
Traci Medford-Rosow |
bbd77bc
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My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
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life
mothers
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Amy Sedaris |
f737c21
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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
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meaning
life
misery
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Voltaire |
1dafebb
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...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
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wonder
life
interesting
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L.M. Montgomery |
b9ce833
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Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
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start-up
step-out-of-your-comfort-zone
courage
dream
leadership
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
motivation
dreams
change
inspiring
motivational
life
inspirational
comfort-zone
achievement
leader
leaders
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Roy T. Bennett |
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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
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work
life
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Hubert Selby Jr. |
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According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
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success
life
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Jon Krakauer |
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...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
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struggles
life
carry
nothing
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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"Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger."
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humour
life
passenger
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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|
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
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education
life
college
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Jeannette Walls |
dff8feb
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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
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|
opportunity-temptation
temptation
choice
life
inspirational
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Steve Maraboli |
7d2472f
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There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.
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life
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
ef9c6c7
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"The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything.
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life
nana
manga
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Ai Yazawa |
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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
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humour
life
fooball
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Nick Hornby |
a65c090
|
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
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fate
fear
life
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Jacqueline Carey |
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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life
conduct-of-life
society
rules
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Wallace Stegner |
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Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
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|
accidents
moïra-fowley-doyle
staying-alive
the-accident-season
young-adult
inspiration
fantasy
heartbreak
life
love
truth
inspirational
life-goes-on
hurt
unique
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Moïra Fowley-Doyle |
81325b9
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Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?
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|
young-adult
spiritual
life
inspirational
inheritance
eragon
inheritance-cycle
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Christopher Paolini |
a6c0ee5
|
Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia.
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life
truth
inspirational
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Hlovate |
0b5010f
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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.
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life
lives
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Holly Black |
64a7f82
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
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|
life
philosophy
pumpkin
life-philosophy
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.
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hope
life
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Ned Vizzini |
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Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.
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story
reading
writing
god
life
nesbit
railway
christian
mistakes
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E. Nesbit |
817ff85
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Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.
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action
agreement-with-reality
happiness
life
inspirational
mindset
circumstances
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Steve Maraboli |
d25b59e
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Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
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life
thought-provoking
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Tom Robbins |
e43560c
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The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
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|
nature
humanity
life
philosophy
nurture
roots
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Milan Kundera |
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Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office--the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement--is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.
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depression
future
reality
happiness
life
assistance
bupropion
hays-office
measurement
mentorship
publicity
soothsaying
horoscopes
uncertainty-principle
werner-heisenberg
self-delusion
perception
virtues
writers
smoking
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Christopher Hitchens |
a03c112
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Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
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past
life
inspirational
questioning
regret
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Colleen Hoover |
3f407ad
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After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.
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life
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Audrey Niffenegger |
d799333
|
I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive.
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life
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Stephen King |
240d87b
|
Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love - but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.
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life
love
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
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Osho |
56f2ec8
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Don't tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don't tell fat women to put down the fork. Don't tell underweight men to bulk up. Don't tell women with facial hair to wax, don't tell uncircumcised men they're gross, don't tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don't tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vagina, don't tell black women to relax their hair, don't tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don't tell "apple-shaped" women what's "flattering," don't tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don't tell people whose toes you don't approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they "should" and "shouldn't" do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU.
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|
people
women
life
inspirational
society
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Lindy West |
6c9652d
|
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
61591ab
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she wasn't very interesting but few people are.
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|
poem
poetry
people
women
humanity
family
death
life
love
bukowski
interesting
conversation
society
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Charles Bukowski |
84f92da
|
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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|
life
pity
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Robin Hobb |
408de39
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Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit.' And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.
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|
hope-life
life
love
inspirational
|
Cecelia Ahern |
c7a2805
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To live is to be haunted.
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|
live
life
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Philip K. Dick |
03c021e
|
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness
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|
meaning
life
inspirational
|
Edgar Lee Masters |
04d6d91
|
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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death
life
interesting
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Jimmy Buffett |
7039cd0
|
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
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|
solitude
life
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Saul Bellow |
1f99ca1
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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|
life
|
E.M. Forster |
b2f5c51
|
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
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|
life
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Paulo Coelho |
33e8ebc
|
"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."
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|
money
influence
success
life
opinions
decisions
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Napoleon Hill |
692c98d
|
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
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|
life
|
Haruki Murakami |
fed81ce
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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
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|
strength
life
inspirational
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Cecelia Ahern |
212a089
|
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.
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|
life
dune
|
Frank Herbert |
4f822d6
|
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
|
|
dream
life
inspirational
|
Santosh Kalwar |
06b5e63
|
"It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life."
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|
life
nightmare
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Ned Vizzini |
13d0dbe
|
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
|
|
musician
world
poetry
humanity
music
songs
life
truth
inspirational
lyrics
songwriting
art
connection
song-lyrics
artist
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Criss Jami |
379ac68
|
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.
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|
unity
life
siddhartha
uncertainty
|
Hermann Hesse |
4ff3d54
|
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
|
|
loneliness
life
|
Cormac McCarthy |
baca72d
|
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
|
|
life
listening
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
bdb5b63
|
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
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|
present
life
dark-bird
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Audrey Niffenegger |
f3d6a87
|
As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin's subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well
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|
call-to-action
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
hope
life
inspirational
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Traci Medford-Rosow |
f678d53
|
Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed
|
|
sober-reflection
sobriety-courage
light
inspirational-quotes
life-quotes
hope
life
inspirational
sober
|
Traci Medford-Rosow |
d72d234
|
"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."
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|
spirituality
life
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C.S. Lewis |
4a3884f
|
It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
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|
learning
life
growth
ignorance
dying
|
Mitch Albom |
6a30958
|
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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|
responsibility
life
|
Richard Bach |
ba595c3
|
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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|
life
philosophy
inspirational
individualism
|
Ayn Rand |
d708ea6
|
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
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|
man
life
richards
richard
ben
network
dystopia
stephen
survival
running
king
|
Stephen King |
e24f354
|
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
|
|
humanity
life
|
Paul Bowles |
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I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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life
eat-pray-love
elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.
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life
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Orhan Pamuk |
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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life
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Isabel Allende |
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The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on--only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.
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heaven
death
life
obituary
meaning-of-life
eternal-life
atheism
despair
hell
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Christopher Hitchens |
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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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life
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William Faulkner |
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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
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death
life
wisdom
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Glen Cook |
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It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
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humorous
life
inspirational
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Terry Pratchett |
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The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
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life
inspirational
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Mark Nepo |
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"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it-our life-hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.
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death
life
inspirational
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Marcel Proust |
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If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
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life
inspirational
thought-provoking
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!
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joy
looking-no-further
the-way-of-the-cake
the-way-to-happiness
understanding-happiness
understanding-joy
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
living
happiness
life
inspirational
cake
cakes
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C. JoyBell C. |
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The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
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happy
live-life-happy
choice
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
optimism
happiness
life
inspirational
choose
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Roy T. Bennett |
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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life
mindfulness
sensuality
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James Baldwin |
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You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.
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motivational
life
self-reliance
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Darren Shan |
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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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relationships
life
love
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Lorrie Moore |
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By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or any kind of professional. And by thirty, darkness starts moving in- you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy and successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life, and you become resigned to your fate... ...I mean, why do people live so long? What could be the difference between death at fifty-five and death at sixty-five or seventy-five or eighty-five? Those extra years... what benefit could they possibly have? Why do we go on living even though nothing new happens, nothing new is learned, and nothing new is transmitted? At fifty-five, your story's pretty much over.
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life
mid-life-crisis
quarter-life-crisis
fulfillment
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Douglas Coupland |
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He killed himself for wanting to live.
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suicide
life
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Markus Zusak |
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In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.
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dogs
relationship
life
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John Grogan |
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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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time
life
wind-through-the-keyhole
roland
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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"The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind-
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poem
life
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Robert Frost |
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there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
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loneliness
poem
poetry
death
life
love
bukowski
clarity
nonsense
lonely
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Charles Bukowski |
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The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
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onion-skins
persona
people
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
living
life
inspirational
the-world
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C. JoyBell C. |
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You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else
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life
inspirational
choices
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Marie Sexton |
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
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life
love
inspirational
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Oscar Wilde |
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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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people
life
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John Green |
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"Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored."
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humor
life
inspirational
obvious
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Rodman Philbrick |
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Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.
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life
inspirational
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Heather Vogel Frederick |
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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life
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
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life
truth
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Philip Roth |
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But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
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life
ocean
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
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free-will
life
recipe
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Haruki Murakami |
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...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
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lovers
life
love
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Milan Kundera |
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Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
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action
letting-go
change
motivational
life
inspirational
spiritual-growth
simplicity
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Steve Maraboli |
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No lake so still but it has its wave
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life
philosophy
inspirational
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Confucius |
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Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don't realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they've reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives
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broken-hearts
cutting-your-self
depression
emo
emotion
hopeless-romantic
lfe-essons
phases
romance
sorrow
joy
happiness
life
love
inspirational
childhood-trauma
teenage-love
infatuation
growing-up
helplessness
crying
parents
bullying
teenagers
trapped
childhood
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Thisuri Wanniarachchi |
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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
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secret
life
remember
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Gregory Maguire |
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You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
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life
inspirational
attitude
potential
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Myles Munroe |
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"I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral--these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them."
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meaning
life
love
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David Levithan |
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We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
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life
inspirational
purpose
journey
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Gloria Gaither |
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Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
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life
competition
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Haruki Murakami |
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The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.
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suffering
spirit
learning
life
truth
perpetual
student
zen
mastery
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Robert Greene |
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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Vaclav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.
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humour
life
philosophy
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Douglas Coupland |
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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you
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motivation
motivational
success
life
inspirational
mistakes
failure
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Maxwell Maltz |
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
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live
strength
life
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
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life
panchaali
palace-of-illusions
krishna
seriousness
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way
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faith
funny
relationship
death
religion
god
humor
life
love
truth
inspirational
friend
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Ali Shariati |
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My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
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heartbreak
life
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Anne Brontë |
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But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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loving-relationship
universe
satisfaction
life
truth
materialism
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Mitch Albom |
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"Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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life
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Mitch Albom |
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It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
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emotion
life
philosophy
sun
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David Gemmell |
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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
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life
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stephen king |
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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life
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Charlotte Brontë |
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It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.
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lies
life
love
truth
lady-midnight
the-dark-artifices
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Cassandra Clare |
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Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.
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joy
happiness
life
ideals
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David O. McKay |
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He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.
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grief
life
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Nicholas Sparks |
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"But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak"
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human
life
human-condition
trial
priest
mistakes
guilty
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Franz Kafka |
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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romance
life
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Michael Cunningham |
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Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread
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life
family-values
mafia
rules
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Mario Puzo |
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"If Epicurus were speaking to you at this moment, he would urge you to simplify life. Here's how he might put it if he were standing here today : " Lads,your needs are few, they are easily attained, and any necessary suffering can be easily tolerated. Don't complicate your life with such trivial goals as riches and fame: they are the enemy of ATARAXIA. Fame,for example,consist of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as other wish. To achieve and maintain fame, we must like what others like and shun whatever it is that they shun. Hence, a life of fame or a life in politics? Flee from it. And wealth? Avoid it! It is a trap. The more we acquire the more we crave, and the deeper our sadness when our yearning is not satisfied. Lads, listen to me: If you crave happiness, do not waste your life struggling for that which you really do not need."
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life
yalom
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Irvin D. Yalom |