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    Wendy Mass
    “A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
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    Wendy Mass
    “When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star
    tags: goal, life, myself, someone
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    Wendy Mass
    “When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star
    tags: bullying, power, tease
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: friendship, inspirational, meaning
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: love-remedy
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: friendship
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Mikhail Naimy
    “So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”
    ― Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
    tags: spirit, thought
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    Mikhail Naimy
    “Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”
    ― Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
    tags: self-knowledge, wisdom
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
    ― Wolfgang Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
    tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school
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    Plato
    “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Character is simply habit long continued.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “You should not honor men more than truth.”
    ― Plato
    tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth
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    Plato
    “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
    ― Plato
    tags: courage, fear
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    Emanuel Swedenborg
    “Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
    less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.”
    ― Emanuel Swedenborg
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    Emanuel Swedenborg
    “We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.”
    ― Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell
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    Emanuel Swedenborg
    “Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.”
    ― Emanuel Swedenborg
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    Edmund Spenser
    “For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
    ― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “So runs my dream, but what am I?
    An infant crying in the night
    An infant crying for the light
    And with no language but a cry.”
    ― Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: childlike, dreams, knowledge, poetry
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Theirs not to reason why,
    Theirs but to do and die”
    ― Lord Tennyson Alfred
    tags: military
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”
    ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
    ― Tennyson
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  • #30
    Alfred Tennyson
    “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: deception, lying
    714 likes



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