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• The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Relationship, Light

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.48, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dying, Novelists, Way

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.304, Vintage

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• You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Forgiveness, Believe, Novelists

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Forgiveness, Kindness

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.108, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Novelists, Would Be, Pace

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

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• It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Success, Failure, Novelists

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.306, Macmillan

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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• Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Knights, Knighthood

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Eternity and Eternity" (p. 32), 1999.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Success, Dream, Use It Or Lose It

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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