Pretty Words On Pretty Paper

This blog is about beautiful words strung together in a gorgeous array. Or to say it plainly: quotes.

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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

-Eckhart Tolle

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

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Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Carrie Fisher

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

Roald Dahl

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

William Faulkner

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen

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Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.

Gail Tsukiyama

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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Michelle Obama

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L’Engle

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“A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”

— Alan Rickman

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We firmly believe music can change the world!

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time

Mitch Albom

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I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you.

Colleen Hoover

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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Red Haircrow