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    Audrey Hepburn
    “Paris is always a good idea.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: sabrina-paris
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: sex-appeal, women
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance, self-esteem
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    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “But as long as one is alive, one can be vital. But you don't give up until you stop breathing.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
    tags: george-barris, marilyn-monroe, quotes
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: love
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: earth, poems-of-blood-and-passion, spring
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Anne Frank
    “Because paper has more patience than people. ”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting
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    Nina Simone
    “You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”
    ― Nina Simone
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  • #17
    “You have survived so much
    that no one remembers.
    And you still spread warm
    rain on all your overgrown
    lots. And you still get dressed
    in the morning. You still
    open wide for the sun.”
    ― Jacqui Germain, When the Ghosts Come Ashore
    tags: healing, inspirational, jacqui-germain, poetry, recovery
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Maya Angelou
    “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Lana Del Rey
    “Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: distance, lana-del-rey, life, music, queen, quote
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    ― Philippe Ariès
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    “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
    ― Jamie Anderson
    tags: grief-and-loss
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I restore myself when I'm alone.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    “So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
    ― R. Arnold
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    “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
    ― Natalie Newman, Butterflies and Bullshit
    tags: beautiful, beauty, inspirational, misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
    1987 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
    440 likes



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