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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation."

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Plato Philosopher
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"It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke."

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
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"A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room."

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