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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93540 likes

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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #7
    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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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32143 likes

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  • #10
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42754 likes

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  • #11
    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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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15554 likes

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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
    101579 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: inspirational, mourning
    647 likes

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  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”
    ― Jodi Picoult
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. ”
    ― Jodi Picoult
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  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disillusionment, growing-up, narrow-mindedness, open-mindedness, wonder
    382 likes

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  • #22
    Jodi Picoult
    “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: growing-up
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  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: love
    278 likes

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  • #24
    Jodi Picoult
    “Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
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  • #27
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: love
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  • #28
    Jodi Picoult
    “Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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  • #29
    Garth Stein
    “That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: destiny, ignorance
    724 likes

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  • #30
    Garth Stein
    “Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: humor
    188 likes



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