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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

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#2

“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe”
― Lex Luthor

tags: comics, inspirational

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#3

“Life's a journey, Clark. I don't wanna go through it following a roadmap.”
― Lex Luthor

tags: smallville

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#4

“We know better now that devils don't come from the hell beneath us, they come from the sky.”
― Lex Luthor

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#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#6

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#7

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#10

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

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#12

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#13

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: happiness, inspirational, responsibility

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#14

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#15

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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#16

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

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#17

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

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#18

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard

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#19

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

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#20

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: magic

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#21

“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die..”
― Laurie Faria Stolarz, White Is for Magic

tags: cool, death, magic, morbid, song, twisted

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#22

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#23

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth

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#24

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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#25

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#26

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing

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#27

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#28

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, ego, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstandings, overthinking, pain, perception, perspective, questions, reading-into-everything, reading-into-things, second-quessing, self-esteem, self-improvement

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#29

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

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#30

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

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