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More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere. ↗

— Donald Gorman

#humor-inspirational #paranoia #parnoia-humor #humor

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#inspirational #love #religion #inspirational

Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ↗

— Yogi Bhajan

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لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان ↗

— Malcolm X

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well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing. ↗

— Tanuja Desai Hidier

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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