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    Omar Khayyám
    “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    ― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was a child and she was a child,
    In this kingdom by the sea,
    But we loved with a love that was more than love—
    I and my Annabel Lee—”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
    tags: annabel-lee, edgar-allan-poe, love, poem
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: autumn, baking, fall, first-frost
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
    For I would ride with you upon the wind,
    Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
    And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
    tags: dance, faeries, mountains, wind, world
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    Confucius
    “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: ancient, ancient-china, ancient-chinese, body, chinese, conquers, fighting, inspirational, philosophical, philosophy, proverb, self-improvement, self-realization, training, warrior
    225 likes

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    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: flickr
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    Seneca
    “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: stress, travel
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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    Jack Kerouac
    “all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: fight, happiness, learn
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    Irene Hunt
    “I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.”
    ― Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
    tags: beauty, contentment, happiness, little-things
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: contentment, happiness, life
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    Robert Murray M'Cheyne
    “Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--”
    ― Robert Murray McCheyne
    tags: contentment, god, happiness, inspirational, peace, perspective
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    Seth D.
    “Be like the flower, content with its nature.”
    ― Seth D.
    tags: confidence, contentment, desire, happiness, identity, living, nature, perception, perspective
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    “Happiness is not found in what you possess but in what you appreciate.”
    ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
    tags: appreciate, contentment, fulfillment, gratitude, happiness, joy, mindfulness, peace, possess, simplicity
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: absurd, cats, humor
    1740 likes

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    Hippolyte Taine
    “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
    ― Hippolyte Taine
    tags: animals, cats, intelligence, philosophers, smart, wisdom
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    Robin Hobb
    “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
    tags: family, home
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    Ann Brashares
    “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
    ― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
    tags: agape, family, life, love, unconditional-love
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    Alfred Stieglitz
    “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
    ― Alfred Stieglitz
    tags: photography
    187 likes

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    Ansel Adams
    “Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: belief, paintings, photography
    217 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
    tags: photography
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    Ansel Adams
    “A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, expression, photography, self-expression
    158 likes

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    Amit Kalantri
    “A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, business, business-quotes, corporate, corporate-world, hobby, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, meeting, meetings, metaphysics, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, objective, objectivism, objectivity, paint, painters, painting, philosophical, philosophy, photographer, photographs, photography, photography-quotes, picture, pictures, practical, practicality, practice, pragmatic, pragmatism, wallpaper, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, works
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    Elliott Erwitt
    “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
    ― Elliott Erwitt
    tags: eastman-kodak, photography, the-joy-of-photographing-people
    126 likes



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