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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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    Krista Ritchie
    “I have so many regrets. I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”
    ― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: gone-with-the-wind, rhett-butler
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    Steve Martin
    “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy
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  • #8
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring
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    Edith Hamilton
    “It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated."

    [Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]”
    ― Edith Hamilton
    tags: education
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
    tags: life-lessons
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: adversity, failure, future, harvard-commencement-speech, hope, inspirational, life-lessons, rock-bottom
    440 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, dependency, fear, life-lessons, self-empowerment, survival
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    Louise Erdrich
    “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
    tags: life-lessons, life-philosophy, love
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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  • #18
    “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
    tags: holding-back, life-lessons
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    Robin Williams
    “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
    ― Robin Williams
    tags: life-lessons, wisdom
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    Charles Dickens
    “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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    Jenny Colgan
    “I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
    ― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
    tags: business, chick-lit, gluttony, humor, humour, seven-deadly-sins
    108 likes



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