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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: creativity
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    Mark Twain
    “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
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  • #14
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7771 likes

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  • #15
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #17
    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Dr. Seuss
    “If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33865 likes

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  • #21
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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  • #22
    Edmond Rostand
    “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
    ― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
    tags: kiss, lips, secret
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Ovid
    “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: love, poetry, words
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    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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  • #26
    Ovid
    “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
    ― Ovid
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #28
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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  • #29
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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  • #30
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
    7229 likes



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