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#2

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

#3

“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

tags: sage, the-false-prince

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#4

“Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

tags: sage

98 likes

#5

“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”
― Dan Zadra

tags: worry

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#6

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37058 likes

#7

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: cynicism, human, life, philosophy, wisdom

417 likes

#8

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: sacrifice

2120 likes

#9

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177283 likes

#10

“But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: coming-out, glbt, simon-spier

482 likes

#11

“No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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#12

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: heart, reason

161 likes

#13

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg

tags: dr-seuss, humor, inspirational, musical

3065 likes

#14

“Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

tags: tomorrow

24 likes

#15

“It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

8 likes

#16

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

571 likes

#17

“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

2003 likes

#19

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices

1530 likes

#20

“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: mitch-albom

425 likes

#21

“Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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#22

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: profound

4712 likes

#23

“(I’ve often noticed that people equate “having a sense of humour” with “being an insensitive moron.”)”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

47 likes

#24

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

230 likes

#25

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

415 likes

#26

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

67 likes

#27

“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

16 likes

#28

“The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.”
― Morrie Schwartz

tags: mitch-albom, tuesdays-with-morrie

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#29

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: death, life

11431 likes

#30

“If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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#31

“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: age, beautiful, competitive-issue, good, life, true

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#32

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

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