make a list of 100 quotes that inspire me

“At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.”
— Paulo Coelho

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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
—Bill Cosby

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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.
—Chuck Palahniuk

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Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
—Chuck Palahniuk

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I’d rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”
—Dorothy Allison

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
—Dorothy Allison

When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn’t know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It’s warm and it’s welcoming. It’s a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say ‘Amen’.
—Dorothy Allison

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
—Margaret Atwood

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it’s the latter, so I sign up
—Margaret Atwood

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
—Margaret Atwood

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
—Chuck Palahniuk

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
—Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
—Sylvia Plath

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”
—Sydney J. Harris

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
—Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
—Marie Beyon Ray

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
—Sir William Drummond

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
—Salvador Dali