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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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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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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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    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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    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    ― Hal Borland
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    ― Kathleen Winsor
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    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer
    tags: truth
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    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    ― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    tags: nonfiction, pretty
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    ― William Blake
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    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    ― Selma Lagerlöf
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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  • #17
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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  • #18
    Anthony Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    ― William Congreve
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    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Irwin Shaw
    “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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    Phyllis McGinley
    “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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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Karen Blixen
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    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    John Lennon
    “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
    ― John Lennon
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
    ― J.M. Barrie
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  • #30
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
    4448 likes



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