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#151

“Ava said, “There is a French saying that applies to my situation: 'Be careful of that animal - it is very vicious. When you attack it, it defends itself.”
― Ian Hamilton, The Water Rat of Wanchai

tags: animals, self-defense

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#152

“Chisme goes with cafecito like bread and butter.”
― Raquel V. Reyes, Mango, Mambo, and Murder

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#153

“Fear should be an advisor whose counsel is weighed carefully, not a leader whose commands are followed blindly.”
― Kevin A. Kuhn, Do You Realize?

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#154

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#155

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#156

“Ah, how youth is wasted on the young, she says. It is our great shame and tragedy that we don’t see how beautiful we are until later, when it’s gone, and we look back and wonder why we didn’t see, why we didn’t know. Why we didn’t seize it and use it to conquer the world.”
― S.E. Lynes, The Pact

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#157

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#158

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

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#159

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

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#160

“Earth Breathes in Us.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

tags: air, earth, environmentalism, love, native-american, nature, peace, spiritual, unity

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#161

“I didn’t know, in my enthusiastic youth, that every little action, choice and deed could have significance, that decisions we made could stay with us and we rarely had the opportunity to go back and undo the poor ones we made.”
― Valerie Keogh, The Trophy Wife

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#162

“We don’t see the future. That’s not the way it is. We can’t see around the corner what’s awaiting us.”
― John Nicholl, The Bride

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#163

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: psychology

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#164

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#165

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

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#166

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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#167

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
― Rumi

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#168

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#169

“Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: suffering, thoughts, torment

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#170

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

tags: happiness, inspirational, philosophical

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#171

“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
― Richard Evans

tags: hope

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#172

“A woman is like an ocean; beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
― Kevin Ansbro

tags: female, female-beauty, female-empowerment, femininity, feminism, femme, girl-power, woman-quotes, women, women-empowerment

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#173

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#174

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#175

“Do not dumb down your art for dumb people.”
― Nicole Pierman

tags: art-artist-writer-author

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#176

“When literacy died, so had history.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

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#177

“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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#178

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#179

“There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

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#180

“The living do not truly mourn the dead. They mourn the plight of those left behind. The real victims of tragedy are the survivors.”
― Jennifer Rainey, Binding Dante Lovelace

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