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#1

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#2

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

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#3

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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#4

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#5

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#6

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#7

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

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#8

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#10

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

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#11

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

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#12

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#13

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

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#14

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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#15

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2894 likes

#16

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#17

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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#18

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

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#19

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#20

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#21

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

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#22

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

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#23

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

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#24

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

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#25

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#26

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

4221 likes

#27

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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#28

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#29

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

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#30

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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