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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, be that kind of a friend for your friends.
Mark Twain

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, be that kind of a friend for your friends.
Mark Twain
All human wisdom is contained in these two words— Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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Sometimes people say things simply to fill silence. Or as a way to shock and provoke. Or as exercise. Verbal aerobics. Loquacious cardio. There are any number of reasons. Only very rarely are words used strictly for their denotative meanings.
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression, of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Sylvia Plath, The Rival 

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Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it. Of course, you have to read the books, too. Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
John Waters, Role Models

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Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
I’ll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
Haruki Murakami
ithedivine: How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your well-being. That’s a more poetic translation, but it omits a pivotal part. Regardless, Kahlil Gibran was the man.

ithedivine:

How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your well-being.

That’s a more poetic translation, but it omits a pivotal part. Regardless, Kahlil Gibran was the man.

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There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I’m dealing with my blushing face.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh 
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato (via denny-jacob)

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