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#1

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles

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#2

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
― William Jennings Bryan

tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny

1366 likes

#3

“And die of nothing but a rage to live”
― Alexander Pope

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#4

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

8234 likes

#5

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11933 likes

#6

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#7

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

7152 likes

#8

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

5110 likes

#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135887 likes

#10

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3233 likes

#11

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
― Euripides

89 likes

#12

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”
― Euripides

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#13

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

4618 likes

#14

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

8366 likes

#15

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77902 likes

#16

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational, life, self-acceptance

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