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  • Mother Teresa
    "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


  • Mark Twain
    "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
    Mark Twain


  • Mother Teresa
    "Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
    Life is beauty, admire it.
    Life is a dream, realize it.
    Life is a challenge, meet it.
    Life is a duty, complete it.
    Life is a game, play it.
    Life is a promise, fulfill it.
    Life is sorrow, overcome it.
    Life is a song, sing it.
    Life is a struggle, accept it.
    Life is a tragedy, confront it.
    Life is an adventure, dare it.
    Life is luck, make it.
    Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
    Life is life, fight for it."
    Mother Teresa


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "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


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
    Marilyn Monroe


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


  • Tom Robbins
    "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
    Tom Robbins


  • Tom Robbins
    "There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
    Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)


  • Tom Robbins
    "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."
    Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)


  • Tom Robbins
    "Who knows how to make love stay?

    1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.

    2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

    3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning."
    Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)


  • Phyllis Diller
    "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
    Phyllis Diller


  • Gloria Steinem
    "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
    Gloria Steinem


  • Nicholas Sparks
    "Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
    Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)


  • Oscar Wilde
    "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
    Oscar Wilde


  • Terry Pratchett
    "It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
    Terry Pratchett


  • Sarah Dessen
    "I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "
    Sarah Dessen


  • Sarah Dessen
    "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 on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
    Sarah Dessen


  • Sarah Dessen
    "Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
    Sarah Dessen


  • Sarah Dessen
    "It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."
    Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "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)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
    That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."
    Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more."
    Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it."
    Sarah Dessen


  • "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
    Donna Roberts


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "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)


  • "A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    enough money within her control to move out
    and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
    to or needs to...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
    dreams wants to see her in an hour...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
    a youth she's content to leave behind....
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
    retelling it in her old age....
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
    a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
    lace bra...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
    lets her cry...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
    else in her family...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
    recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    a feeling of control over her destiny...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    how to fall in love without losing herself..
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
    BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
    AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    that she can't change the length of her calves,
    the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    whom she can trust,
    whom she can't,
    and why she shouldn't
    take it personally...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    where to go...
    be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
    or a charming inn in the woods...
    when her soul needs soothing...
    EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
    what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
    a month...and a year..."
    Pamela Redmond Satran


  • Robert Fulghum
    "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
    Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)


  • Neil Gaiman
    "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
    Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)


  • Mark Twain
    "Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
    Mark Twain


  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


  • Arundhati Roy
    "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
    Arundhati Roy


  • Mahatma Gandhi
    "7 DEADLY SINS

    Wealth without work

    Pleasure without conscience

    Science without humanity

    Knowledge without character

    Politics without principle

    Commerce without morality

    Worship without sacrifice."
    Mahatma Gandhi


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Nick Hornby
    "It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
    Nick Hornby


  • Cornelia Funke
    "Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page."
    Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)


  • Confucius
    "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
    Confucius


  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • Milan Kundera
    "Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
    Milan Kundera


  • Bill Watterson
    "I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
    Bill Watterson


  • Lily Tomlin
    "The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
    Lily Tomlin


  • Oscar Wilde
    "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
    Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)


  • Neil Gaiman
    "Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
    Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)


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


  • Maya Angelou
    "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
    Maya Angelou


  • Stephen Chbosky
    "...we accept the love we think we deserve."
    Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Audrey Hepburn
    "Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you."
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Stephen Chbosky
    "Enjoy it. Because it's happening."
    Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)



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