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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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    Jim Morrison
    “Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
    ― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
    tags: distraction, entertaining, film, life
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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: le-petit-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But if you tame me, then we
    shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
    shall be unique in all the world.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: me, need, world, you
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: communication, miscommunication
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: commercialization, friends, friendship, reflection, time, understanding
    166 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Only the children know what they are looking for.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
    235 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown ups are certainly very strange.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint - Exupery
    tags: the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: life
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational, lovely
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And I love to listen to the stars at night. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells . . .”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But I was too young to know how to love her.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend...I shall not leave you.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Anatole France
    “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
    ― Anatole France, Works of Anatole France
    tags: achievement, aspirations, belief, dreams
    315 likes

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    Anatole France
    “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: imagination
    217 likes

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    Anatole France
    “In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”
    ― Anatole France
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    Anatole France
    “It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: arrogance, truth, zealotry
    118 likes

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    Anatole France
    “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
    ― Anatole France
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    Anatole France
    “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: journey, process
    144 likes

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  • #31
    Anatole France
    “It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
    ― Anatole France
    71 likes



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