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    Thomas à Kempis
    “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
    ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
    tags: balance, control, inspirational, spiritual
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: control, organization
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    Megan Chance
    “You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
    ― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
    tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away
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    Epictetus
    “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: control, freedom, goal, happiness, life, philosophy
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    Irving Stone
    “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: art, dedication, talent
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Passion is a foundation, not a guarantee, of greatness.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: 10-000-hours, dedication, greatest-of-all-time, greatness, love-what-you-do, mastery, passion, practice, talent, talented
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: dedication, inspiration
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: 10-000-hours, coaching, dedication, greatness, mastery, mediocre, mediocrity, practice, talent, talented
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Practice exaggerates talent.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: 10-000-hours, 10000-hours, coaching, dedication, genius, greatness, mastery, practice, practice-makes-perfect, talent
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: dedication, hard-work, love, mastery, talent
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Where there is love there is life.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: life, love
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: heartbreak, love
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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
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    Albert Einstein
    “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert, einstein, equations, success
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    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    ― haruki murakami
    tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
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  • #25
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities, choices
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
    31459 likes

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  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, life
    28120 likes



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