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  • #1
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #2
    James Frey
    “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #3
    Greta Garbo
    “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
    Greta Garbo, Garbo

  • #4
    Octavia E. Butler
    “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #5
    Laura Hillenbrand
    “Without dignity, identity is erased.”
    Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #8
    Adrienne Rich
    “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #9
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
    with the ability to say no to oneself.”
    Abraham Joshua Heschel

  • #10
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #11
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”
    Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • #12
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #13
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.”
    Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #14
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.”
    Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #15
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?”
    Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #16
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.”
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #17
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “...she refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.”
    Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #18
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.”
    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

  • #19
    Jarod Kintz
    “Learning how to love is like learning how to tie your shoes, and that’s precisely why I wear slippers.”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #20
    “Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.”
    Clinton Kelly

  • #21
    Tammara Webber
    “How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before.”
    Tammara Webber, Good For You
    tags: love, reid

  • #22
    Tammara Webber
    “Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.”
    Tammara Webber, Good For You

  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #24
    Emily Giffin
    “People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”
    Emily Giffin, Something Blue

  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #26
    Tammara Webber
    “The key to lying skillfully is never lie to yourself.”
    Tammara Webber, Good For You

  • #27
    Tammara Webber
    “And then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.”
    Tammara Webber, Good For You

  • #28
    Tammara Webber
    “I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.”
    Tammara Webber, Good For You

  • #29
    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #30
    Dante Alighieri
    “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso



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