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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail."

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Ruskin Bond Author
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"Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing."

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"There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself)."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination."

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Ovid Poet
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"I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong."

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