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    Frida Kahlo
    “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Brad Meltzer
    “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
    ― Brad Meltzer
    tags: compassion, humanity, kindness
    289 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Maybe the princess could save herself."
    "That sounds like a pretty good story too.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Fairest
    tags: cinder, fairest, feminist, levana, princess, queen-levana, the-lunar-chronicles
    538 likes

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    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, feminism, men, women
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: ³¦±ô¾±³¦³óé²õ, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6159 likes

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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
    2676 likes

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    Wendy Mass
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
    ― Wendy Mass, The Candymakers
    tags: kindness
    400 likes

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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    Edward Hopper
    “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
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    Edward Hopper
    “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: art, artists, expression, vision
    68 likes

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    Edward Hopper
    “No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: art, artists, imagination, method, skill
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Edward Hopper
    “Maybe I am not very human - all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
    ― Edward Hopper
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    41881 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
    10619 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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  • #25
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
    5657 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
    4497 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh
    1188 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128285 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84387 likes



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