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Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun. ↗

— Richard Rhodes

#science #family

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#bogeyman #dragon #dragons #fairy-tales #inspirational

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#human #inspirational #life #living #wisdom

Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier. ↗

— Jon Skovron

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Sebagian orang berharap dapat menikah dengan laki-laki yang mereka cintai. Doaku sedikit berbeda: Aku dengan rendah hati memohon kepada Tuhan agar aku mencintai laki-laki yang aku nikahi. ↗

— Ikram Abidi

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Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introverts #susan-cain #inspirational

It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#inspiration #life #poetic-fiction #inspirational

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#life #work #inspirational

Don't try to be original; just try to be good. ↗

— Paul Rand

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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. ↗

— John Burroughs

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