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  I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

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  Crazy, Reality, Different

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• You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

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  Believe, Issues, Magic

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  One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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• Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

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  People, Mind, Mouths

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  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

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  Life, Change, Time

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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• One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

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  Mind, World, Hardest

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

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  Inspirational, People, Mad

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• If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

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  Want, Matter, Path

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• If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

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  Limits, Faults, Action

  Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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• Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
  "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
  "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
  "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
  "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
  "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

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  Crazy, Cat, People

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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• Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

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  Cat, Want, Ends

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

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  Recycling, Form, Better Late Than Never

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

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  Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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• But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

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  Eye

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• Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

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  Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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• To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

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  Helping Others, Giving, Goal

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

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  Inspirational, Yoga, Wells

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.404, Delphi Classics

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• I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

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  Morning, Thinking, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

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  People, Way, Knows

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

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  Long, Giving, Inspire

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.927, Race Point Pub

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• People who don't think shouldn't talk.

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  Thinking, People

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• Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

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  White, Long, Forever

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• I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

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  Summer, Children, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Tenniel (1998). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

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  Believe, Mind, Able

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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