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“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

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#2

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#4

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#5

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

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#6

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#7

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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#10

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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#11

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio

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#12

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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#13

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#14

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#15

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

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#16

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#17

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

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#18

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#19

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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#20

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#21

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

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#22

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#23

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

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#24

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#25

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

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#26

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
― erma bombeck

tags: philosophy

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#27

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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#28

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

tags: boundaries, parenting

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“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: answers, barriers, boundaries, children, existence, questions

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#30

“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”
― Erin Hunter

tags: borders, boundaries, day, death, hope, life, loss, night, true

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