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Some Thoughtful, Charming, and Edgy Short-and-Sweet Quotes, Just Because

Maybe your next instagram caption, maybe your motivation to get through the week, maybe a down-to-earth line you haven't heard before....

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Some Thoughtful, Charming, and Edgy Short-and-Sweet Quotes, Just Because
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank


"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye


"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk


"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin


"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor, in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express)


"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer


"If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long." - Noam Chomsky


"In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals – we are constantly exhorting people to “come out of their shells” – but there’s a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go." - Susan Cain


"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." -Dalai Lama


"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss


"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist


"Write drunk. Edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway


"There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place." - Banksy


"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll


"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we have only one."
- Confucius (551-479 B.C.)


"I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson


"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius


“At a certain point, you gotta think, ‘I’m more than just a comedian.’”

“But I fell in love with the work. And the work was joyful. And difficult, and interesting, and that was my focus.” - (Jerry Seinfeld & President Barack Obama on Comedians in Cars GettingCoffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-Q_zpuJGU&feature=youtu.be 15:37)


"It is not the road ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe." -Arabian proverb


"There’s so little traffic on the extra mile." - from Taming the Marketing Jungle, by Silvana Clark


"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'" - John F. Kennedy


"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." - Margaret Drabble


"Don't let them change ya, or even rearrange ya." - Bob Marley


“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller

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