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#1

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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#2

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

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#3

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

tags: curiousity, intelligence, mystery, puzzle, trail

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#4

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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#5

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

tags: ahmadiyya, inspirational

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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

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#8

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#9

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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#10

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

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#11

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

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#12

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#13

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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#14

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#15

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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#16

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

11984 likes

#17

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#18

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

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#19

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

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#20

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

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#21

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

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#22

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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#23

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

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#24

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#25

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

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#26

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#27

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

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#28

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#29

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#30

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway

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