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thehopefulquotes:

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

imaginethewords:

“I hate writing, I love having written.”

— Dorothy Parker

booksqouted:

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

philosophybits:

“The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”

— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

thespilledquotes:

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

— Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

thespilledquotes:

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

— Maya Angelou

thezeroquotes:

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

— Maya Angelou

bugs-inamber:

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

whosafraidofvirginiawoolf:

“Yes, that’s the bore of comfort,” said Lord Warburton. “We only know when we are uncomfortable.”

The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James