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10 quotes club: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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1. "Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile." 2. "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." 3. "A true friend is the one who holds your hands and touches your heart." 4. "For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened." 5. "Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected." 6. "Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen." 7. "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude." 8. "Shame has poor memory." 9. "The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past." 10. "There is always something to love." ...

10 quotes club: Harriet Tubman

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1.  “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”   2.  “I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.”    3.  “If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”    4. "I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it." 5. "I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land." 6.  “I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.” 7.  “Farewell, ole Ma...

10 quotes club: Helen Keller

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1. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." 2. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." 3. "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." 4. "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others." 5. "What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me." 6. "It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." 7. "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." 8. "All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." 9. "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." 10. "The highest result of education is tolerance." Helen Keller

10 quotes club: Nelson Mandela

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1. "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." 2. "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace." 3. "No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated." 4. "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom." 5. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." 6. "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest." 7. "Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual....

10 quotes club: Victor Hugo

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1. "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." 2. "It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. " 3. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." 4. "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." 5. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. " 6. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey. " 7. "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. " 8. "One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. " 9. "Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. " 10. "A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable." Victor Hugo

10 quotes club: Jiddu Krishnamurti

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1. "A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. " 2. "Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens." 3. "To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself." 4. "It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper." 5. "Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence." 6. "You mu...

10 quotes club: Einstein

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1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." 2. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. " 3. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." 4. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." 5. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." 6. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." 7. "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." ...

10 quotes club: Rumi

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1.   “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” 2. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” 3. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” 4. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” 5.   “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”  6. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 7. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." 8. “Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.” 9. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing the...

10 quotes club: Thich Nhat Hanh

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1. "If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." 2. "Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." 3. "It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more." 4. "We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize." 5. "People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore." 6. "We will be more successful in all our endeavours if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-centre ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living." 7. "Hope is important because it can make the present mo...

10 quotes club: Gandhi

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1. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” 2. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” 3. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” 4. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” 5. “ Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviour. Keep your behaviour positive because your behaviour becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” 6. “ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” 7. The seven social sins: ·          Politics without principles ·          Wealth without work ·          P...