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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life
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    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2807 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: death, life
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: being-human, goodness, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles
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  • #10
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: give, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness, life, life-quotes, living
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    Criss Jami
    “There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: arrogance, cocky, cognition, confidence, conviction, ego, haters, humility, minority, offense, pride, right, superiority, wrong
    396 likes

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    Julian Barnes
    “Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: arrogance, fear, men, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: arrogance
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    Robert Macfarlane
    “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
    ― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
    tags: adventure, arrogance, humility, inspirational, mountaineering, mountains, oblivion
    298 likes

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    Megan Whalen Turner
    “Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”
    ― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
    tags: decisions, influence, psychology
    741 likes

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    Stephen King
    “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
    tags: influence, life, teaching
    765 likes

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  • #18
    “But I am homesick for arms that have never held me”
    ― John Doe
    tags: desire, longing, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
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    Franz Kafka
    “No, I didn't imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I want it in its entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to lead my life, my life that is yours, without distraction and with complete concentration, in you.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
    60 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
    tags: kafka
    88 likes

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  • #22
    Franz Kafka
    “It was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so”
    ― Franz Kafka, Kafka
    tags: forgiveness, love, self-awareness
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can't find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don't leave me. And should one of my enemies from within write to you as he did this morning, don't believe him, just ignore him and look straight into my heart”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: care, confession, forgiveness, love, lovers
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  • #24
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
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  • #25
    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: education, future
    1666 likes

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  • #26
    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
    2316 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
    3191 likes

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  • #28
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1588 likes

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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
    1247 likes

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  • #30
    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
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