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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed, unverifiable
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
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"It is never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise."
— Nancy Thayer

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"we are what we believe we are"
— C.S. Lewis

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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
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"It always seems impossible until it's done."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: perseverence
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
— Walt Disney Company

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"If you can dream it, you can do it."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspiration
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
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"To dance is to live!"
— Charles M. Schulz

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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
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"We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds."
— Libba Bray

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"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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— Walt Disney Company

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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
— Lucille Ball

tags: inspirational
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"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think."
— Misty Copeland

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"Invent your own definition of success"
— Mya Harrison

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"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life
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"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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"To achieve your potential, you'll have to rediscover the joy."
— Amanda Welch Borden

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"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin. "
— Charles M. Schulz

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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

tags: pg-26
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
— Epicurus (The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments)

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"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
— Lucille Ball

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"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

tags: courage, inspirational, life
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"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: change
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"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
— Ralph Hodson

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
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"...Go live ITM."
"ITM?"
"In the Mo," Beth elaborated."
— Michele Jaffe

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Youth comes but once in a lifetime"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,871 people liked it

"It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself"
— Lucille Ball

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"There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't."
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)

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"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
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. "
— Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
106 people liked it

"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: sisters
22 people liked it

"All things are possible until they are proven impossible."
— Pearl S. Buck

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"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress."
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)

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"People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone."
— L.J. Smith (Witchlight)

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

tags: books, soul
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"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
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