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#1

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

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#2

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

tags: exes, friendship, love

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#3

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go

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#4

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

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#5

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

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#6

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.”
― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

tags: belief, endurance, hatred, hope, injustice, life, misfortune, opposition, salvation, strength

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#7

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: endurance, sadness, the-unknown

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#8

“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.”
― Anonymous, Come Be My Follower

tags: endurance

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#9

“Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adversity, attitude, character, different, different-perspective, endurance, endure, existence, faith, faithfulness, god, greatness, happiness, hardship, hope, inspirational, invincible, invincible-will, joy, love, manifest, manifestation, mistaken, misunderstood, motivational, pain, peace, perseverance, perspective, power, powerful, problem, rejoice, seeing-things-in-a-different-way, shame, strength, strong, strong-willed, suffering, understanding, unstoppable, unstoppable-force, will, wisdom

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#10

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: confidence, honesty

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#11

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge

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#12

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, confidence

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#13

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

tags: confidence, inspirational

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#14

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami

tags: confidence, confronting, courage, honesty, humble, humility, imperfections, naked, self-disclosure, share, strength-of-character, vulnerability, weakness

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#15

“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: confidence, independence, love, man, modern-society, relationships, women

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#16

“No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

tags: confidence, inspirational

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#17

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

tags: confidence

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#18

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#19

“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 they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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#20

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#21

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#22

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

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

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world

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#23

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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