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#1

""He's a wallflower.""
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: charlie, chbosky, wallflower
11 people liked it

#2

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

13 people liked it

#3

""I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.""
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

33 people liked it

#4

"I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

53 people liked it

#5

"We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
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— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

116 people liked it

#6

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
13,755 people liked it

#7

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
5,482 people liked it

#8

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
8,990 people liked it

#9

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,857 people liked it

#10

"If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!"
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

131 people liked it

#11

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
9,381 people liked it

#12

"I knew that there were no guarantees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anybody. Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

203 people liked it

#13

"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

504 people liked it

#14

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,923 people liked it

#15

". . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."
— Sara Zarr (Sweethearts)

82 people liked it

#16

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,655 people liked it

#17

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: be-yourself, individuality, love
114 people liked it

#18

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
— Oliver James

tags: individuality, inspirational, life
237 people liked it

#19

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
958 people liked it

#20

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits
531 people liked it

#21

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,392 people liked it

#22

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: crime, funny, humour, neighborhoods
660 people liked it

#23

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
9,885 people liked it

#24

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
3,699 people liked it

#25

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,997 people liked it

#26

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
2,999 people liked it

#27

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
4,797 people liked it

#28

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
4,628 people liked it

#29

"He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

14,447 people liked it

#30

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,030 people liked it

#31

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."
— Marilyn Monroe

485 people liked it

#32

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girl, makeup, world
917 people liked it

#33

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

2,049 people liked it

#34

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn-monroe
1,038 people liked it

#35

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be-yourself, inspirational
3,068 people liked it

#36

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
14,834 people liked it

#37

"...there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

tags: comfort, sad, sadness
82 people liked it

#38

"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."
— Cathy Guisewite

tags: eyes, funny, lemons
628 people liked it

#39

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

tags: awesomeness, funny
152 people liked it

#40

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
2,084 people liked it

#41

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
1,830 people liked it

#42

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
5,395 people liked it

#43

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

tags: love
2,395 people liked it

#44

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
121 people liked it

#45

"But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?"
Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?""
— Rachel Caine (Midnight Alley)

tags: funny, morganvillevampires
68 people liked it

#46

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven
1,172 people liked it

#47

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
430 people liked it

#48

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
8,393 people liked it

#49

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
4,180 people liked it

#50

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
4,197 people liked it

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