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Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse
Alone Solitude Independence
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. Hermann Hesse
Life Reality People World Live Unreal Except Take Allow Outside Never Contained Within Itself So Many People Them Us Many Assert Why Images
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien
Strength You Heart Must Wits Been Use Therefore Chosen
There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it. Jesmyn Ward
Conversation Racism Darkness Simple Light Power Torch Out Like Naming Likes Makes Shining Than Any Where Acknowledge Confront Us Root Breed Bright Brighter Thing
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
Strength Strong Weak Only Cruel Learned Gentleness Expected Who
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism Suffering Power State Sum More Cruel Wrong Greater Which Founded
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. Louisa May Alcott
Life Long Power Own Our Kind Dream Weaving Pursue True Wishes Come Make Keep Believing
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. Margaret Atwood
Silence Together Gift Possible Voice Powerlessness Cherished Go Human Should Used Fully Utter Speech
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
You Wise Man Clever Tell Answers His Questions Whether
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. P. D. James
War Generation Political Down Believe Correctness Spine My Generation Political Correctness Linguistic Sends Form Against Who Fascism
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. Paulo Coelho
Love Wise Fool Fools Think Only Because Understand
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
Work You Power Wish Given Never True Come Also Make Without However May Being
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. Toni Morrison
Nothing Difficult Must More Take Since How Handle Refuge Really Why
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. Vladimir Nabokov
Man Known Passions Literature Sweetest Butterflies Two
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
Success Attitude Failure Business Mental Mental Attitude More Caused Than Capacities Even
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray
Attitude Best Good Humor Society Wear Dress Articles
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Zadie Smith
Website Character Facebook Human Being Language Everything Data Individual He He Or She Like She Becomes Reduced Friendships Human Being Sensibility Shrinks Set
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley
History Men Important Most Learn The Most Important Much Lessons
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Never Understand Always Forever Children Anything Tiresome Explaining Them Themselves Grown-Ups Things
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte
Education Heart Soil Difficult Weeds Never Firm Most Well Well Known Known Loosened Eradicate Been Stones Prejudices Grow Whose Among
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. E. M. Forster
Shadow Something Cast Wherever Stand
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel
Truth Memories Truth Is People Words Think Follow Shadows Objects Ideas Most Also Surround Precede Impulses Deeds Beings Desires
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte
Life Dreams Me Water Mind My Life Wine Gone Changed Dreamed Stayed Color Through Like Ideas Altered After Ever Ever After
Man is not made for defeat. Ernest Hemingway
Man Made Defeat
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power Matters Those Dare One Thing Able Given Only Only One Thing Pick Up Themselves Lower Who Thing
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Man Every Enough Ought Would See Fond Troubles Count Counted He Counting Joys Does His Provided Lot Up Them
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