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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #8
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #12
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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  • #16
    “When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
    tags: hope
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
    Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
    Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
    (Josh Matteson)”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “My favorite quote for First Frost is, They give their hearts away too easily and get distracted by silver-eyed strangers.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: contest
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    Rebecca Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    ― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
    tags: inspirational
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  • #22
    Patricia Highsmith
    “I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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  • #23
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “1. I am superior to others.
    Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.
    And:
    I would not feel sorry if someone were blamed for something I did.
    Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: every-fifteen-minutes, lisa-scottoline
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Susan B. Anthony
    “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
    ― Susan B. Anthony
    tags: spirituality
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    Susan Ee
    “What if they don’t let us go through?” I ask, trying not to move my lips.
    “They will,” he answers from the dark recesses of the backseat footwell.
    “How do you know?”
    “Because you have the look they’re looking for.”
    “What look is that?”
    “Beautiful.” His voice is like a caress from the shadows.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: cry, forgive, happiness, inspiration, learn, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, seeds, success, tears, water
    3271 likes

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  • #30
    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
    4520 likes



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