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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “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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  • #6
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #9
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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  • #11
    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: honesty
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  • #14
    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “This moment will just be another story someday.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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  • #16
    Stephen Chbosky
    “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: wallflower
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  • #17
    Stephen Chbosky
    “We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #20
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 21: Pursuit
    tags: naruto
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  • #21
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts. ”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto
    tags: loneliness, naruto, understanding
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  • #22
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto
    tags: hate, love, naruto, peace, war
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  • #23
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto
    tags: naruto
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  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational
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    Rick Riordan
    “The real world is where the monsters are.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: monsters, reality, world
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    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance
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    Rick Riordan
    “She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: bravery, fish, humor
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  • #30
    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: love
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