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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.


Virginia Woolf

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
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GINA GREENLEE 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
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JOHN WAIRE I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have lear...
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JODI PICOULT There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
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FAITH N. Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them.
TREVON CLARK If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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PHILIP T. M. If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA Basically, his intestines have developed outside of his body, right next to his belly button and wha...
DONNIE MILLER I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds shoul...
NICOLE ARLYN I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE ...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
ISAAC MARION Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it !
EPHDAN So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM Just because it's a trend should we do it?
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MARY DALY Ongea unachoweza kutenda.
ENOCK MAREGESI You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
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MARSHA BERRY WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO.
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VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF