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#1

“A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.”
― Arthur Bloch

tags: humor-conclusion

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#2

“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
― Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret

tags: girls, lesbian, love, romance

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#3

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

tags: misfortune, time

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#4

“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, christianity, ethics, morality, philosophy

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#5

“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
― Susan Donovan, He Loves Lucy

tags: diet, dieting, miss-piggy, muppets, rules, weight-loss

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#6

“I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.”
― Jonathan Hull, Losing Julia

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#7

“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

tags: heroics, philosophy

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#8

“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

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#9

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness

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#10

“As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.”
― Jose Saramago

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#12

“...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.
”
― Janet Fitch

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#13

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

tags: love

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#14

“If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”
― Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme

tags: philosophy, poetry, wisdom

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#15

“I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.”
― Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

tags: ability, honesty, moments

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#16

“And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.”
― nicholas sparks, The Notebook

tags: commiseration, compassion, understanding

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#17

“Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.”
― Lysa Mateu, Psychic Diaries: Connecting with Who You Are, Why You're Here, and What Lies Beyond

tags: inspirational

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#18

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: education, philosophy

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#19

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, reading

336 likes

#20

“Half my life is an act of revision.”
― John Irving

tags: drama, humour

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#21

“Myth: Caffeine doesn't effect vampires
Truth: True, but I guess it doesn't matter, since you don't get tired anyway.”
― Kimberly Pauley

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#22

“Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s like
whatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of that
pretense is gone.
“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”
“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”
“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”
“Do you believe in fate?”
“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You
know?”
― Susane Colasanti

tags: fate, life, love, philosophy, relationships, zen

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#23

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: craft, writing

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#24

“Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.”
― Danielle Steel

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#25

“I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.”
― Pete Dexter, The Paperboy

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#26

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

tags: beauty, elven, elven-charm, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humor, insight, insightful, life, life-and-death, love, meaning, modern-society, modernism, modernity, postmodern, reflection, reflections, reflective, relationships, rogue, romance, self, self-confidence, self-discovery, self-love, sense, sensibility, series, social-change, society, superficial, superficiality, thief, thief-at-night, thief-of-love, thievery, thieves, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, women, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series

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#27

“Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier.”
― Jon Skovron, Struts & Frets

tags: writing-music-inspiration

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#28

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: travel, wanderlust

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#29

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#30

“Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.”
― Cecelia Ahern

tags: romance

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#31

“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.”
― George sheehan/nora sheeh

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