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    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
    ― Edward Everett Hale
    tags: ability, accomplishment, confidence, determination, self, self-esteem
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    Groucho Marx
    “I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: classic-insult
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
    tags: givers, giving, kindness
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    ― Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: power-of-thoughts
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-roald-dahl, paraphrase-of-horace, play, relaxation
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    Roald Dahl
    “I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
    -Grandpa Joe”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: childlike-wonder, maturity
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
    ― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me
    tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
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    Groucho Marx
    “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: absurd, gibe, insult
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    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: beatitudes, paraphrased
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    Stephen Fry
    “My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
    ― Stephen Fry
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    “Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”
    ― Kate Samperi
    tags: mothers
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    Virginia Woolf
    “For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: mothers, women
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    Cammie McGovern
    “This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”
    ― Cammie McGovern, Neighborhood Watch
    tags: mothers, sacrifices
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
    tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom
    758 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck, What America Means to Me
    tags: bigotry, empathy, indifference, prejudice, race
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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    bell hooks
    “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
    ― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
    tags: bigotry
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    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
    522 likes



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