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"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

Mark Twain, American Author

Wealth, Money, Self, Values

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"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."

Julia Cameron, American Author

Heart, Creativity, Mystery

15

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Eye, Will

15

"What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course."

"What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom, Today

15

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

Family, Father, Son, Earth, Fathers

15

"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."

"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

15

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Love, Time, Heart, Space

15

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

John Burroughs, American Author

15

"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."

"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

Time, Movies, Thought, People

15

"If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it."

"If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it."

David Goggins, American Author

Determination, Commitment, Work Ethic

15

"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."

"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Explore, Power, Wonder, Beautiful

15

"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."

"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."

George Borrow, British Author

Literature, Losing, Trade

15

"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."

"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

Friendship, People, Friends

15

"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother."

"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother."

Sam Levenson, American Author

Marriage, Brother, Talking, Want

15

"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."

"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."

Marge Kennedy, American Author

15

"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."

"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."

J. G. Ballard, British Author

Soul, Fear, Future, Nothing

15

"Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind."

"Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Thought, Thoughts, Midnight, Mind

15

"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."

"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

Fiction, Songs, Writer, Writing

15

"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Travel, Walking

15

"Love is my only love and my eternal friend."

"Love is my only love and my eternal friend."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Friendship, Eternal, Heart

15

"You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night,in the voice of the ocean,in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul."

"You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night,in the voice of the ocean,in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reflection, Silence, Nature, Soul, Listening

15

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."

Emmet Fox, American Author

15

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

Christopher Morley, American Author

Emotional, Clouds, Sky, Water

15

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Man, Men, Observation

15

"This world does not exist to you when you are missing."

"This world does not exist to you when you are missing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, World, Existence, Presence

15

"I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them."

"I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Time, Being, Treasure

15

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

Dan Simmons, American Author

Commonsense, Writing

15

"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"

"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"

Michael Lewis, American Author

15

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."

Peter Benchley, American Author

Man, Oceans, Rain, Respect

15

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

Dick Morris, American Author

Marriage, Action, Gay, Iraq

15

"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."

"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."

Tony Robbins, American Author

Relationship, People

15

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

Clifford Stoll, American Author

Security, Months

15

"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."

"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."

Eckhart Tolle, German Author

Self-Discovery, Spirituality, Consciousness, Beliefs

15

"Attitude. That is your tendency to evaluate things based on your perception. If you think you can't, that is a negative attitude parcel and opening it will reveal what you believe."

"Attitude. That is your tendency to evaluate things based on your perception. If you think you can't, that is a negative attitude parcel and opening it will reveal what you believe."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Attitude, Perception, Belief, Mindset

15

"Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms."

"Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Hope, Soil, Flowers

15

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

15

"All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up."

"All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up."

David Eddings, American Author

Social Workers, Generations, Want, Workers

15

"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."

"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."

Ron Chernow, American Author

Being, Suspicion, Washington, Years

15

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."

Eudora Welty, American Author

15

"People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically."

"People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Religion, God, Spiritual Death, Society, Life

15

"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

Evelyn Waugh, English Author

Limitation, Limitations

15

"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, People, Superiority, Being

15

"May you find grace to fulfil your dream."

"May you find grace to fulfil your dream."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Motivational, Grace, Fulfil, Dream, Find

15

"The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful."

"The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Meaning, Creator, NaturalLaws, Existence

15

"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."

"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Generosity, Care, Pleasure, Life, Giving

15

"We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object."

"We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Spiritual, Heaven, Purity, Love, Reward

15

"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."

"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."

Ernest Mandel, Belgian Author

Revolution, Sense, Workers, World

15

"Stop talking. Start walking."

"Stop talking. Start walking."

L. M. Heroux, American Author

Talking, Walking

15

"Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world."

"Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Peace, Heart, Mind, World

15

"Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture."

"Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture."

Tavis Smiley, American Author

History, African, Community, Culture

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