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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. ↗

— Harper Lee

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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. ↗

— John Dewey

#educational-system #philosophy #education

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #life

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #life #religion #humor

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #life #humor

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#good #life #memories #life