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For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in ...

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Salman RushdieThe Ground Beneath Her Feet

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false...

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Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I a...

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Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and fa...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...

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And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly th...

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

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My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the...

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It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before ...

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into th...

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Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...

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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understan...

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She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look a...

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As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...

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But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-...

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Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits betwee...

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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

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Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music i...

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a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else ha...

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The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

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Sarah DessenKeeping the Moon

it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way,...

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The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be any...

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It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell o...

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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...

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We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to kno...

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We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...

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Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

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Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

You have every right to a beautiful life.

You fall in love and it completely consumes you. So a part of you is broken when that's gone. And pa...

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Always be yourself, there's no one better!

If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dr...

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Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits becom...

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People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe wh...

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Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

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Seth GodinSmall Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, ...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

No DifferenceSmall as a peanut,Big as a giant,We're all the same sizeWhen we turn off the light.Rich...

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All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda D...

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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole...

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Anything is possible. Anything can be.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the ...

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If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore)If you have to dry the dishes('Stead of go...

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Shel SilversteinA Light in the Attic

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you...""You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but p...

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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't suppose...

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To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusion...

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One time Marian showed me some sand. When she gave it to me, she said, "These are very interesting s...

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Shunryu SuzukiNot Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

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Sidney PoitierThe Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

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Sidney PoitierThe Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...

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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimate...

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It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to purs...

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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live...

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I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what...

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The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where learni...

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...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring...

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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...

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Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world...

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For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not t...

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Sri AurobindoSavitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while ...

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When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart...

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Sri ChinmoyMeditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction