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    Glenn Beck
    “Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.”
    ― Glenn Beck
    tags: common-sense, glenn-beck
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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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    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
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    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Henry Adams
    “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
    ― Henry Adams
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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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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden
    tags: miracles, princes, witches
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  • #17
    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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    Monica Ali
    “The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
    ― Monica Ali, Brick Lane
    tags: life
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
    tags: inspirational
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    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
    tags: lost-love, love
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    W.S. Gilbert
    “To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
    in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
    awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
    from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
    ― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
    tags: execution
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    Roland Barthes
    “All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.”
    ― Roland Barthes
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
    406 likes



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