“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
― Albert Einstein
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Gift – Pierre Corneille
The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
– Pierre Corneille
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Giving – Baltasar Gracian
The great art of giving consists in this: The gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
– Baltasar Gracian
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Decide – Unknown
“Decide based on love and not fear.”
– Unknown
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Photographer – Walker Evans
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
– Walker Evans
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Scared or brave – Emma Donoghue
“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
– Emma Donoghue
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Party or tragedy – Nora Roberts
“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
– Nora Roberts
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Learn to love questions – M. Rainer Rilke
“Learn to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like tappings behind dark glass.”
– M. Rainer Rilke
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Choose one’s own way – Viktor E. Frankl
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
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Read books – Aristotle
“The happy life is the contemplative life. If you can read books and enjoy doing nothing, you can always be happy.”
– Aristotle
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Women of colour – Viola Davis
“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity”
– Viola Davis
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Suffering – Charles Dickens
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
– Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
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The present – Robert Green Ingersoll
“The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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Dyslexia – James Martin
Dyslexia is a right pain in the ears.
– James Martin @pundementalism
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Close some doors – Paulo Coelho
“Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere”
– Paulo Coelho