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"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. "
— Henry James

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

tags: life
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
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"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

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

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun is bitter."
— Arthur Rimbaud

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"Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world."
— D.H. Lawrence

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
— D.H. Lawrence

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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."
— D.H. Lawrence

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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.-Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: courage
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"“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”"
— C.S. Lewis

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"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release,
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings."
— Amelia Earhart

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"In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth."
— Lee Siegel

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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
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"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Out beyond ideas of
wrong-doing and right-doing
There is a field,
I'll meet you there

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase,
each other
doesn't make any sense."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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