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    Victor Borge
    “The shortest distance between two people is a smile.”
    ― Victor Borge
    tags: humor, kindness, music, victor-borge
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    Dan Millman
    “Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”
    ― Dan Millman
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Hugh Prather
    “Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”
    ― Hugh Prather, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me
    tags: belief
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: inspirational
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Beware the man of a single book.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation
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    Steve Almond
    “The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.”
    ― Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
    tags: first-sentence, freaks
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    Brian Andreas
    “You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.”
    ― Brian Andreas
    tags: story-people
    456 likes

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    Brian Andreas
    “Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.”
    ― brian andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing. ”
    ― Brian Andreas, Story People
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    Brian Andreas
    “Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Aberjhani
    “Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
    ― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player
    tags: broken-heart, determination, faith, grace, healing, human-nature, inspiration, perseverance, power, recovery, rejuvenation, restoration, resurrection, songs-from-the-black-skylark, spiritual-empowerment, spirituality, survival-instinct, world-suicide-prevention-day, zped-music-player
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